WOMAN DRIVER FINED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23102, 29 July 1938, Page 12

WOMAN DRIVER FINED

INTOXICATION CHARGE CANCELLATION OF LICENCE BACKED INTO POLICE CAR [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION'] HAWERA, Thursday "This is a type of case which is fortunately rare among women," said Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court to-day, when fining Irene Elma Martin £lO for being intoxicated in charge of a car. Her licence was cancelled for a year. Suppression of the name was refused.

Senior-Sergeant Mathieson said the woman had backed into a constable's car, and an investigation showed that she was drunk. "She was so drunk that she had to be supported by a doctor as he was putting her through tests," said the senior sergeant. "Her excuse was that she had been cold and had two drinks at an hotel." THREE MONTHS' GAOL TERM - CONVERSION OF MOTOR-VAN [bt TELEGKAPH OWN COB respondent] HUNTLY, Thursday A labourer, Alexander Frank Maxwell McCallum, of Taupiri, appeared before justices at the Huntly Police Court on charges of unlawfully converting to his own use a motor-van valued at £IOO, the property of George White, of Huntly, and with being intoxicated while in charge of a motorvehicle. Accused pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three months' imprisonment on each charge, the sentences to be concurrent. His motor-driver's licence was also cancelled.