INTOXICATED DRIVER
FINE OF £2O INFLICTED LICENCE SUSPENDED FOR YEAR [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION"] HASTINGS, Tuesday "He was a menace to the public. He should not have been in charge of a petrol lorry," said Mr. J. K. Miller, S.M., in the Hastings Police Court today, after hearing a case in which Thomas Henry Abrams, lorry driver, of Wellington, was charged with being intoxicated when in charge of a petrol lorry on the Napier-Palmerston North road. Accused, who pleaded not guilty, was convicted and fined £2O and costs. His driving licence was suspended for one year. MOTOR-CYCLIST FINED £5 PROSECUTION AT THAMES [BY TELEGRAPH —OWN CORRESPONDENT] THAMES, Tuesday On a charge of being intoxicated while in charge of a motor-cycle, Jefl'ery J. Mariana, of Coroglen, was fined £5, in default 14 days' imprisonment, and his licence was suspended for three months, when he appeared in the Police Court yesterday. " Yon must understand that you will either have to look after the motor vehicle and let drink alone, or, if you are going to drink, leave the motor vehicle alone," said Mr. W. Bongard, one of the presiding justices.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23000, 30 March 1938, Page 16
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