INTOXICATED IN CHARGE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19697, 1 August 1938, Page 4

INTOXICATED IN CHARGE

TRIED TO START CYCLE

TRACTOR DRIVER FINED

The intoxicated state of a man trying to start a motor-cyclo in Carnarvon street last Thursday afternoon was noticed by a resident and as a result of a complaint to the police William Glen Brady, a'tractor driver, aged 35, appeared this morning before Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court. The accused, who pleaded guilty to having been intoxicated while in charge of a motorcycle, was convicted and fined £ls, with costs £1 Is. His license to drive a car or motor-cycle was cancelled for one year.

Senior-Sergeant J. F. H. Macnamara said that the Borough Council's traffic inspector, Mr. T. G. Nowell, had received a complaint at 4.45 p.m. on Thursday that a man, trying to start a motor-cycle in Carnarvon street, was falling over and appeared to.be intoxicated. When the accused was taken to the police station Brady was seen to be fairly drunk, and a certificate to the effect that he was not in a fit state to drive a motorcycle was issued by Dr. R. M. Gunn. Counsel for the accused, Mr. M. R. Maude, said that Brady had started to drive in 1914 and had riot been in trouble before. On the Thursday he had had four long beers and he was on his way home. Brady had no intention of riding the machine, but as he had had trouble in starting it previously he was trying the motor out. If it would not start he was going to take the magneto off when he got home. He intended to wheel the machine home.

The accused was a married man who operated power graders and bull-dozers and if his license to drive those vehicles was cancelled it would effect his employment. His client was tuite prepared to have his license to drive other motor vehicles cancelled for a term.