THREE WEEKS’ GAOL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19666, 25 June 1938, Page 9

THREE WEEKS’ GAOL

INTOXICATED DRIVER

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Remarking that it was a bad case of its kind, and that a monetary penalty would fall on an already poor family, Mr. C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., in the Police Court to-day sentenced Robert Morland Phillips, aged CO, to three weeks’ imprisonment on a charge of being intoxicated in charge of a motor truck on the main highway near Albany. Phillips, a lame man, using a stick, appeared on summons.

The police said that a traffic inspector saw the truck travelling on the wrong side of the road rounding a bend. When Phillips stopped the truck, he .was drunk and staggering. Phillips used the ruck to cart firewood. He had a family of 12 and had not been in trouble before. Counsel for the defence, said that Phillips was in a desperate position financially. He was earning only a precarious living. He had eight children at home, live being under 13 years.

"Evidently the expenditure of the money on liquor to the poverty of the family has not worried him,” said the magistrate. Phillips: Will there be any money going out to the family at home. They are left with only 6s. The magistrate: That will be attended to.