Busman's Holiday

NZ Truth, Issue 1301, 20 November 1930, Page 7

Busman's Holiday

| A TYPICAL busman's holi- |: I".'"'- day v was celebrated by a 1 | Christchurch traffic inspector § | who was recently m Welling- §■ 1' .ton. • ■-..•''■'..- -' •|- I' Noticing. Ernest Emil Hen- § | driksen pursuing an erratic, | | . course m his motor-car, he = i communicated with a Wei- |, I lington' traffic inspector, with .;§ | the result that Hendriksen x| | was arrested on .a charge of | | being m a state of ihtoxica- | | tion while m charge 'of a ' | = motor-car. | | When Hendriksen, wjio is a |i = retired builder, aged 02, was' . = 1 brought .to the Wellington • =. | South Police Stati.on. be was | | examined' tiy three doctors, aU § 1 of whom certified that he was | | intoxicated. I 1 .Mr. Wiren, who' appeared. | | for Hendriksen, said that the. = |' man had had only three | | drinks. The case was a mild ••§ | one and counsel asked for f | leniency. ».-■'•■ § | Mr. E. Page, S.M., who was § = on the bench, imposed a fine | | of ,£2O on Hendriksen and f § ''§ cancelled his license for | 1 twelve months. | .filiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiuniiiiiiHiiiim'niiiiiiiiiiii'iiiiiiiiiii'uiiiiimmiiiii iiiiiif.