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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17132, 7 September 1926, Page 4

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BUT NAME SUPPRESSED,

DRUNKEN MOTOR CYCLIST

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. Oil Saturday night, after ,9•'o’clock, Constable Wilkes found a youth of 19 lying underneath his motor cycle, close to the kerbstone in Parnell road. The rider was arrested oil a charge of being found in a slate of intoxication while in charge of a motor cycle. Senior-Sergeant Edwards said that accused (old the constable that he had drunk half a bottle of wine and some whisky, and later lie.said lie had seven drinks. The position was that the accused did not know how many drinks lie had taken. He was intoxicated. Mr. Skelton said the accused had been at a house where he had taken some whisky. He had riot consumed half a bottle "of wine on .his way home. llci decided to got something to- cat and pulled up alongside tlie footpath near a refreshment room. On placing his foot out to get off (lie machine, it rough! in. the kerbstone and lie slipped, the cycle falling across him. Accused was not used to alcohol.' and the effects of haying taken the drink had overtaken him while he was riding home.

Magistrate Poyriton : He will he sentenced to five days’ 'imprisonment. Do you want his name suppressed ! Mr. Skelton said it was his first offence. Will you not inflict u fine instead Ilf sending the young man to goal? Mr. Poynton : No. then* have been too unanv of these cases lately.