INTOXICATION CHARGE AGAINST OLD MAN
THREE WEEKS IN PRISON (United Press Association) AUCKLAND, June 24. 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., sentenced Robert Morland Phillips, aged 60, to three weeks’ imprisonment for intoxication while in charge of a motortruck on the main highway near Albany. Phillips, who is a lame man using a stick, appeared on summons. The police said a traffic inspector saw a truck travelling on the wrong side of the road rounding a bend and when Phillips stopped the truck he was drunk and staggering. Phillips used the truck to cart firewood. He had a family of 12 and had not been in trouble before. Counsel for the defence said Phillips was in a desperate position financially and was earning only a precarious living. He had eight children at home, five being under 13 years. “Evidently the expenditure of money on liquor to the poverty of his 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 6/-.” The Magistrate: That will be attended to. I
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Southland Times, Issue 23544, 25 June 1938, Page 2
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