BIRTHDAY INDISCRETION
AN INTOXICATED MOTORIST FOURTEEN DAYS' IMPRISONMENT (Special ro Daxlv Times) WELLINGTON. May 18. A young man who celebrated his twenty-first birthday was arrested early this morning for being intoxicated while in charge of a motor car. He appeared in the Magistrate’s Court to-day, and pleaded guilty. "It is difficult to know what to do in this case, but you deliberately drove the car when you were in that state,” said Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., when sentencing the young man, Herbert George Wood, a salesman, to 14 days’ imprisonment. "At 1.15 a.m. to-day a constable heard a loud crash from the direction of Whitmore street," said Subinspector D. J. O'Neill, who prosecuted “The constable investigated, and found a small car which had capsized near a sharp bend. Six bottles of beer and several glasses were in the car, and when the police arrived the accused tried to cover them up He was taken to the police station, and was certified by a doctor as being under the influence of liquor and not in a fit state to drive a car.” Sub-inspector O’Neill said the accused had not previously been in trouble.
Wood’s current driver’s licence was suspended, and he was prohibited from obtaining another for 12 months
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23812, 19 May 1939, Page 3
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