INTOXICATED MOTORIST
TWO WEEKS' HARD LABOUR • Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, Dec. 17. A sentence of two weeks, with hard labour, without the option of a fine, the cancellation of his licence, and prohibition from getting another for a year, was imposed on Joseph Blatchford, aged 33, a baker, by Mr J. L. Stout, S.M.. for intoxication in charge of a car. A constable saw the car come out of- a street without lights at 2 a.m. and stood in the roadway to stop the driver. The driver swept round him and collided with a stationary car. . The degree of intoxication was not great, the sub'-inspector said, and accused had not been previously before the court.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23686, 19 December 1938, Page 12
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