DRUNK IN CHARGE.

Pahiatua Herald, 29 September 1936, Page 5

DRUNK IN CHARGE.

YOUNG MAORI FINED WHAT STX SHAN HIES CAUSED 1 . Electric Telegraph—Press Association PALMERSTON N., East Night. A fine of £lO was imposed yesterfday by Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., on a man who appealed before him to-day charged with being intoxicated whim in charge of a car. John Simeon, a Maori farm labourer, aged 21, of Aorangi, Feilding, pleaded guilty to being in charge of a motor cai' in Rangitikei on Saturday while iu a. state of intoxication. Senior-Sergeant Moriarty said that Simeon bad been driving out of town when a car emerging from Maire street halted to let him pass. Instead of swerving however to avoid the other vehicle. Simeon drove into it. Traffic Inspector H. J. Smith was summoned, and took defendant to the jKilice station, where he admitted hai ing had six shandies a short while before the collision. ANOTHER DRIVER GAOLED. CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 28. Robert Franklin Dobson, aged 23, a porter, was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment in the Magistrate’s Court to-day for being intoxicated in charge of a car. Dobson was also charged with signing a false name to obtain a rental car, driving without a license, and breach of a prohibition order. On these charges he w as convicted and discharged The pol ice said that Dobson obtained a rental car by signing a false name and producing a license belonging to another man. Following a slight accident Dobson returned the car to the garage, where the damage to the vehicle was noticed and the police sent for. Dobson had been convicted of a similar offence two years ago and admitted to probation. He broke the probation orders and was sentenced to two years’ Borstal treatment, from which he was nowon license. John Daniell McDougall, on a charge of being intoxicated in a car, was fined £2O and costs, and his license was cancelled for 12 months. TAXI DRIVER FINED. INVERCARGILL. Sept. 28. ‘•lt is not safe to drive on the North road after 6 o’clock on any night, especially for cyclists. It is my j -opinion that hotels, on the outskirts of a city where there is no license are a menace to human life. This is , an outstanding example of that. Men don't go out there to have a drifts., they go to fill up, as it were,” said 1 Mr W. H. Freeman. S.M., during , fhe hearing of ; charge against a , taxi driver, James Douglass Scott, i who pleaded guilty to being mtox. - ] cated while in charge of a car. i Counsel said that the accused was suffering from influenza and went to i an hotel for rum to try to shake it j off. He had been driving for 12 years s and had never had an accident. j The Magistrate said that if the ae- s cused had been plying lor hire he would have imposed imprisonment. c Scott was fined £25 and his license |. was cancelled to the end of the cur- s rent term. t