INTOXICATED MOTORIST.
AN UNENVIABLE RECORD. £2O FINE AND LICENSE CANCELLED. (Peb United p bess Association.) WELLINGTON, April 29. When considering what sentence to impose on Walter Frederick Marris, customs agent, aged 30, whom he was convicting of being drunk while in charge of a motor car, Mr T. M. M’Neil, S.M., asked .what was known about the man. Senior Sergeant Butler: Besides a number of minor offences the defendant was fined £lO in 1924 for failing to stop after an accident, and in 1927 was fined £lO and had his license cancelled tor three months for being drunk while in charge of a car. The magistrate remarked that from 1923 the defendant had been convicted no fewer than 13 times for offences in connection with driving a car. He would be failing in his duty if he did not inflict a substantial penalty. The defendant would be lined £2O and his license would be cancelled and he would be prohibited from obtaining another for 12 months.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20704, 30 April 1929, Page 12
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166INTOXICATED MOTORIST. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20704, 30 April 1929, Page 12
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