INTOXICATED IN CAR
SCHOOL TEACHER CHARGED SUPPRESSION OF NAME REFUSED. . (Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, April 24. Thomas Lucas Barnes, aged 50, a school teacher,: was fined £7 and costs and had hia driver’s license cancelled by the magistrate (Mr E. D. Mosley), this morning on a charge of being in control of a motor car.in Cashel street last night while in a state of intoxication. He pleaded guilty. ' Counsel said that his client taught at Beckenham, and had four drinks yesterday. He applied for suppression of the man’s name, saying that publication would cost Barnes his job. The magistrate: I don’t think publication will “make any difference in this case. It is bound to get to the ears of the authorities and it is proper that it should. They should know what their servants are doing. Why should the man’s name be concealed? The case does not come within of the rules 1 have set down for my guidance.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22246, 26 April 1934, Page 10
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