A BAD RECORD

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17181, 11 February 1930, Page 2

A BAD RECORD

t INTOXICATED MOTORIST ■ ' LIQUOR WHILE PROHIBITED Well-known in the Gisborne .police li'ionH. ha vine 16 previous convkfciohs fltljw various offences, a Maori, Whare jfe 41, appeared before Mr. P. H. Pp»rper, S.M., this morning and pleaded ipi'SE»lf.y : to five charges, having been arjfelUsM mi ‘town -last- Trighfcridriviflg* ■»-7 i car ;while in a state of intoxication... The, feiifciiied *• was remanded until'this" artef-; fe-©a»6» Whs’ charged with being* Riband in a state of intoxication while I- itt ,charge of- ft'car hi- Ohilderii' road i yesterday;-with obtaining liffubriyes-I'-terday while the subject of a : prohibits fion orde#?' with dVivihg a car while iffltolt-being the holder of a license; with driving a ear with only one headlamp Mrfting, and with procuring 1 liquor on'January 28 white prohibited. Mr. R. G. G. Bain appeared for the p; accused, who pleaded guilty to all f-cjharges. • ' pJ Senior-Sergeant Wade explained I that four of the charges concerned the • accused’s behavior last night, and the < other ©ffence'was committed on Jdfiudifficult to know tfhat with Oarroll;''he had been'before g the court oh. 16 previous occasions for IN Offence* practically all of which were l. <lne 'to liquor. Ho lmd been prohibit:cd, he httd_bben fined, and he had been pifejut to' gtlol, -without effect, and lifhough he -had escaped lightly on a, jf.number of Occasion* ho failed ■to rcI? spbttft'to leniency. ;? lif 1928 ! fiis licCiisO Hgsyaii- taken away from him for-'thyoe Ildars f lie-still'bad n' ear}, however, ami p&PalO ’he had it. it was a. constant temptdtioii t-o fake lt‘but, as he-did P last night. He was now prepared to |:%>k»tiv-the ehr to the witate.: Carit>H [- ■i-its l ft constant source of 1 fttmoyahee to relatives; he was ! till tight l When St^^obef-J“h u t -when under the influence B'he was a reckless fool. One . punishment which had not yet IS.been tried was a term on the island. - Tho magistrate: Has he any OeCtfpation? ‘. iSilple senior-sergeant: -No; he is sUppejported by his - relatives. vt . piii'The senior-sergeant' added that Carproil/was seen coming along ,thc road with only one headlamp, ‘and te:krh«b stopped he tried to push a Maoii into the driver’s sent, 'but Piii. eomp'anioTi would not 'he |; -«Ould not drive, ami knew nothing |l||i>wui’a : -car. , , ?>r;: Mr. Bain explained that Carroll had lilliccn working ia • the garden- -at Wai|Ktai.beach, timd was caHed’On by gome Pother natives to go -into 'town, ' and llUjplishly s he took the 'ear. The case pf|irfts a problematical -one. Whenever fe- : ?Carroll got' into trouble it was always the association "of other Maoris, and through the liquor which tiPlSik supplied to him. He **nd not been. - ‘-in-troiible for two years, nnd counsel I’iijirould suggest that he bo given an- !•;■ '''other chance. . iSfvlqale wnUor-sorgoaiit mentioned that' |?:4Carr«l-W»i an’-dndischKrged'bankrUpt.