MOTORIST FINED £30

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19601, 5 April 1938, Page 7

MOTORIST FINED £3O

FOURTH TIME INTOXICATED

APPEAL FOR LENIENCY

"SERVICE TO COMMUNITY"

(Per Press Association.) BLENHEIM, this day

Donald McLean, farmer, of Am'berley, and a member of the Kowai County Council, pleaded guilty before justices this morning to a charge of being intoxicated while in charge of a motor car at Spring Creek on Saturday afternoon. The police stated that it was his fourth offence, the other three toeing in Christchurch, two in 1927 and one in 1931. McLean arrived in Blenheim from Ambeiiey on Saturday with a quantity of liquor in his car, and already under the influence of drink. He sought to be supplied at Spring Creek, but the barman refused as he was driving a car. McLean became offensive and aimed at blow at the man, who advised him to leave. In August, 1927, McLean was fined £lO. Four months later he was sentenced to 14 days' gaol. On his third conyiction in 1931 he was fined £lO and his license cancelled for two years. Counsel for the defendant, in appealing for leniency, said that McLean proposed seeking re-election to the County Council and imprisonment would ruin his chances.

The bench, in imposing a fine of £3O and two years' disqualification, said the defendant apparently was a person of some service to the community. A term of imprisonment would cause him to suffer considerably in view of the approaching local body elections.

DUNEDIN ADMISSION

SEQUEL TO COLLISION

(Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day

In the police court to-day Sydney Tasman Smart admitted being in charge of a car while in a state of intoxication.

The police stated that Smart was involved in a collision on the main South road near Otokia. When a constable arrived on the scene Smart became pugnacious, using obscene language. On the intoxication charge Smart was fined £lO and prohibited from driving for a year. He was fined £1 for using obscene language. The magistrate indicated that Smart would be permitted to apply for a certificate to drive within a nolicense area after a lapse of six months. SIX MEN CHARGED CASES IN CHRISTCHURCH (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Six men were charged to-day with intoxication while in charge of cars. At Christchurch, George Manifold Wilton, a dental mechanic, aged 37, was fined £3O and his license cancelled and endorsed and declared unfit to hold another for three years. Thomas Sydney McGuire, a labourer, aged 25, was fined £lO and his license cancelled for 12 months.

William Hayes, a farmer, aged 52, was fined £2O and his license cancelled for 12 months.

Philip Bernard Percasky, a labourer, aged 22, was fined £lO and his license cancelled for 12 months.

At Lyttclton, John Francis Smith and Sydney Herbert Green, labourers, jointly charged, were remanded until Wednesday.