MOTORIST FINED £15

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23259, 31 January 1939, Page 11

MOTORIST FINED £ls

INTOXICATION CHARGE [by TELEGRAPH —OWN correspondent] (tISBOKNE, Monday "I don't know how I can make any exception in this case," said Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M., this morning in the Police Court in answer to an appeal by Mr. M. R. Maude, counsel for Anthony William Hardy, a lorry driver, aged 26, who pleaded guilty to being intoxicated while driving a motor-car on Saturday night. Mr. Maude asked that accused's private car licence be cancelled and that he be allowed to retain his lorry driving licence. Asked by Mr. Walton what he thought of the suggestion regarding the licence, the police prosecutor said that if accused was going to take liquor when he was in charge of a motor vehicle'lie should not have a licence. Mr. Walton said that if accused had injured anyone all his sorrow would not be of any help to that person. Some people through some weakness or another were a danger on the road and a penalty could not be waived. Accused was convicted and fined £ls and costs, and his licence was cancelled for a year. Time in which to pay the fine was allowed. '

COMMENT BY MAGISTRATE CASE CLOSE TO BORDER-LINE [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON. Monday "In view of the doctor's report I am not going to impose a term of imprisonment. The accident may well have been caused through the weather and as this case was so close to the border-line I am going to give you the benefit of what tho doctor certified. Although you were intoxicated the intoxication was of light degree." This comment was made by Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court to-dav, when imposing a fine of £lO on Sydney O'Donnell Marriott, a butcher, who pleaded guilty to being intoxicated while in charge of a motortruck. Accused's licence was also cancelled. . , Tho police said accused collided witn a stationary car and failed to stop. Counsel said accused was driving m heavy rain. The truck, because of the slippery road, became temporarily o of control.