TAXI DRIVER INTOXICATED
£ls FINE AT TOKOMARU
SIX MONTHS'' PROHIBITION
(Special to the Herald.) TOKOMARU Bay, this day. A fine of £ls was imposed on Oscar Frithof Mathieson, a taxi driver, when he appeared in the Police Court on Saturday before Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M., for being in charge of a car while in a state of intaxication. His driving license was cancelled, and ho was prohibited from procuring another for six months. Mathieson pleaded guilty to the charge. Constable Beasley stated that during an inspection of Te Puka Hotel on Friday, he saw Mathieson drinking at the bar. When Mathieson came out of the hotel a few minufces later, he got into the taxi, and when he started the ear it mounted the hotel steps. When ordered by the constable to get out, the accused was staggering, lie admitted having had two or three drinks.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19880, 6 March 1939, Page 4
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