DOCTOR’S LAPSE
DRUNK IN CHARGE OF CAR. FINE IMPOSED. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, October 28. Charged with being drunk while in charge of a car, a medical practitioner, Selwyn Langstaffe Haslett, was fined £25 in the Magistrate’s Court on Saturday. His driving license was also endorsed.
Senior-Sergeant Dempey described how on Friday night Constable Wilson found defendant in a stationary car, where he was lying asleep across the wheel.
A constable woke him up and took him to the Taranaki street station, where two medical men saw him and stated him to be intoxicated. Mr A. J. Mazengarb said that the accused had recently disposed of his practice in the north and had come to Wellington. Worry and work involved in taking over his new practice had proved very exhausting, and he had taken a drink to “buck himself up.” He had not been driving the car, but was merely asleep in it.
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Southland Times, Issue 22464, 29 October 1934, Page 5
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