INTOXICATED MOTORIST

Southland Times, Issue 23678, 29 November 1938, Page 11

INTOXICATED MOTORIST

MOTOR DRIVER SENTENCED TO IMPRISONMENT (United Press Association) DUNEDIN, November 28. “For doing a favour to a friend this man will lose the position he has held with the City Corporation for 20 years,” stated counsel when Reginald Hector Gillan pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court to a charge of intoxication in charge of a car. A friend who owned an old model car but could not drive, asked Gillan to drive him. The car stalled and when Gillan was cranking it the inspector came on the scene.

Gillan, a motor driver by occupation, was sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment, his licence being cancelled for 12 months. MOTOR MECHANIC FINED (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, November 28. After getting two intoxicated friends away, Walter Hugh Naughton, aged 22, a motor mechanic, returned to a motorcar over which a police watch had been set and was arrested for intoxication in charge He was examined by a doctor, the consequence of which was a long report for the Magistrate’s Court. At the conclusion of the hearing, Mr W F. Stillwell, S.M., said he thought it a case where there should merely be a fine and imposed one of £l5 with cancellation of the licence for 12 months.