INTOXICATED MOTORIST

Southland Times, Issue 23612, 13 September 1938, Page 11

INTOXICATED MOTORIST

FINE OF £l2 IMPOSED (United Press Association) GREYMOUTH, September 12. In the Magistrate’s Court William Pendlebury, secretary of the State Miners’ Union at Runanga, was fined £l2 for intoxication while in charge of a motor-car and his licence was suspended until 1940. Mr R. Ferner, S.M., said the fact that the defendant had intentionally stopped his car showed that he had retained some degree of caution. But for that fact a term of imprisonment would have been imposed. The evidence showed that Pendlebury was found asleep over the steering wheel on the afternoon of August 27 by a constable. The defendant admitted having had five drinks between noon and 1.30 p.m., but he attributed his condition to overwork and an attack of dizziness as the result of a war injury. LABOURER SENTENCED TO IMPRISONMENT (United Press Association) WANGANUI, September 12. Paki Ruranti, aged 26, a labourer, was sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment by Mr J. H. Salmon, S.M., for being intoxicated while in charge of a motor-car and his licence was cancelled for 12 months,