AFTER THE BANQUET WAS OVER

NZ Truth, Issue 1082, 26 August 1926, Page 7

AFTER THE BANQUET WAS OVER

' I (From "Truth's" Special Wellington Representative.); . ff | 1 .- 7 A"W N future, when his firm gives a smoke -concert and ' § !"•'■ jBjI I instructs him to drive : the guests to. tneir various "-. § 1 7ffl$ML m homes and hotels after the festivities, Leslie John § | 7TO."SPi Blackburn, will be strictly on? 'the water-wagon. | - 1 . ■: (£p - Sub-manager of the shipping and sales de- . | . | pa,rtment of a big motor company in Wellington, with pros- | . | pects of becoming manager, Leslie, an enterprising young | | ;inan of 23, was given the job of conveying the various: | 1 motor-car dealers, who were the guests of * honor, safely | '; 1 home to bed. '• 7 % .'' '-if f ._■ _■:■■ .7» | 1 Everybody, including Leslie, did 'full' justice to the |. | spread, to say nothing of the liquid ref restimeh^s. =•'■ . ■ | 1 True to the trust imposed upon him/Blackburii got busy J | after the entertainment and started ou| to tuck his guestg'; | 1 into bed. Unfortunately ; for him.; however, his progress | 1 along Manners Street after midniglit',att^apteU J 't_\e..^atten- J 1 tion of two watchdogs of the law. , ■'■': ' ... „ -. .'"•:' 1 | ; They stopped him and expressed considerable doubt as- | | -to whether he : himself , did not require somebody to tuckliini |. I into bed, and, to. make certain that their judgment was .not, y ...1\ 1 at' fault, they sent -a hurried message .to the sergeant, 'fff'i'' 1 Out of his many '•'._ years ' experience with drunks/ the | , | station sergeant clinched matters by arresting .Leslie and |?- -1 bedding Mm down in a, cell for the night, n - |v 1 Last week he made his /appearance in, the Magistrate's J. 1 Court on a charge of driving a motor-car while under the § ' | influence of liquor. S.-M. Page ref useclto suppress his name. if. p | and fined him £10, suspending his driving license foiv';siic ; 1 1 months. . ' _ .f- f.f,. ' f £ •'-';"•,■■' = £mniuuiuiujwuiuuuuuiiwu^^