“PRETTY GOOD SHERRY"
AN OLD SOLDIER’S LAPSE : Three sherries cost Balfour Macnaghten, aged 61, a retired colonel, £25 at Aldershot recently. That was the amount the magistrates fined him for being under the influence of L drink while in charge of a car. Colonel Macnaghten was told that only his age prevented him from being sent to prison. His licence was sus* pended for two years. The colonel stated that he had driven 100,000 miles without being involved in any accident, and on this occasion he had three glasses of sherry wit!} his lunch. " It was either pretty good sherry ot you cannot take much, observed t magistrate.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23118, 18 February 1937, Page 13
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108“PRETTY GOOD SHERRY" Otago Daily Times, Issue 23118, 18 February 1937, Page 13
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