After the Ball Was Over

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 139, 2 September 1927, Page 9

After the Ball Was Over

SMASHES IN CHRISTCHURCH YOUNG WOMAN INJURED (Special to THE SUN.) CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday. \ Last night the licensed victuallers’ bail was held in Christchurch and several accidents happened to cars going home afterwards. A terrific crash, followed by cries, disturbed residents of Colombo Street North between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. A motor-car containing a man and a woman hit a telegraph pole, and as a result Miss J. Smith was seriously cut about and was taken to Lewisham Hospital, where she was operated on to-day for a deep chin wound. The car was owned and driven by Stanley Ashton. He and Miss Smith were motoring home after* attending the ball. In Colombo Street North, the car shot head-on into a telegraph pole, which it shattered to the base. It is said that a rear tyre blew out. The drivel* was not injured. The radiator of the car was stove in, the front axle broken, and the windscreen shattered. POSTS AND WiNDOVV SMASHED At 4 a.m. Mr. P. S. Lawrence, licensee of the Club Hotel, while returuing from the same function, was turning from Colombo Street when his car skidded. The rear portion crashed into two verandah posts, which fell and smashed a plate-glass window of Mr. S. R. Ingold’s drapery shop, almost opposite the Club Hotel. THE MORNING AFTER For being intoxicated in charge of a car, William Allen Young, aged 20 (Mr. W. F. Tracy), was fined £5 by Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court to-day. The police evidence was that at 2.40 a.m. to-day Y r oung was seen leaning over the side of his car, which was parked in Cambridge Terrace. He was drunk and had been ill, and was taken in a taxi to the police station. He had apparently been to the dance in the Caledonian Hall and had had liquor there. Mr. Tracy said that Young had been dancing and had merely gone out and sat in the car, where he had fallen asleep. He had not intended to drive the car. The most serious aspect of the case was the fact that the youth had com- ! menced a professional career, and was in a responsible position. If the case were given unnecessary publicity it might mean stopping his present career. The magistrate said, with regard to the name, he did not intend to interfei*e with the discretion of the Press, but people in charge of cars must be made to realise their responsibility. Iu the circumstances, as the car was not driven at all, lie would not interI fere with Young’s licence.