POLICE COURT
YESTERDAY’S SITTING. MOTORIST CONVICTED. At a sitting of the City Police Court yesterday, before Mr E. C. Lewey, S.M., William Stanley Lindsay, a married man, of Invercargill, was charged with being in a state of intoxication while driving a motor car on the evening of September 21 last. A second charge of driving in a manner dangerous to the public was withdrawn.
Defendant who pleaded not guilty, was represented by Mr Brian Hewat. Senior-Sergeant Packer conducted the prosecution on behalf of the police. After lengthy evidence was heard defendant was fined £3O, costs 19/-, witnesses expenses 13/6 and had his driving license cancelled for two years. - Ewen John McLachlan pleaded guilty to riding a cycle at night without lights and was fined 2/6 and costs. A taxi-driver, for whom Mr Eustace Russell appeared, pleaded not guilty, to taking liquor into a no-license district. Senior-Sergeant Packer said it was necessary where liquor was being taken into a no-license area that an
order should be given by the purchaser to the hotelkeeper, and a copy of the order procured by the carrier. In this case the carrier was the taxidriver in whose possession was the liquor. The onus was on the carrier to see that he had an order for any liquor to be carried into a no-license area. Mr Russell submitted that defendant had not committed a breach of the licensing regulations and quoted several althorities in support of his argument. He contended that where the quantity of liquor in the possession of the passenger, did not exceed that stipulated in the regulations, there was no need for the carrier to have an
order. The Magistrate commented upon the absurdity of the conditions, but according to the regulations they were necessary. Much as it was “against the grain” to convict he had no other option. Defendant was ordered to pay costs only. Pleading guilty to the failure to bury the carcass of a dead horse, Arthur Ernest Morris, of Oteramika road, was ordered to pay costs, 10/-.
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Southland Times, Issue 21848, 27 October 1932, Page 7
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