MONTH'S IMPRISONMENT
INTOXICATED DRIVER "A VERY BAD CASE" (Per Pross Association.! AUCKLAND, this day. Following a warning which he gave in the Police Court yesterday that, except in very special circumstances intoxicated motorists would be sent to gaol, Mr. C. R. Orr-Walker, today sentenced Hugh John- Foster Roberts, aged 34, a saddler of Pokeno, to one month's imprisonment and 'cancelled his license for two years. Roberts had pleaded guilty to being found in a state of intoxication while in charge of a motor-car in Great South road, Otahuhu. The police said that Roberts was arrested on a charge of ordinary drunkenness, and later they found he was in charge of a motor-car. The car lights were on and everything was in order, except that the car was parked 12ft. from the kerb. He was returning from Auckland to Pokeno. Counsel asked for the infliction cf a fine instead of imprisonment. "This is a very bad case," said the magistrate. "This man was utterly drunk. He knew he was going home in the dark. I cannot imagine anything more dangerous than to drive over the Great South road in the state of drunkenness that this man was in."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19623, 5 May 1938, Page 9
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197MONTH'S IMPRISONMENT Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19623, 5 May 1938, Page 9
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