MAGISTRATE’S WARNING
INTOXICATED LORRY DRIVER. FINED AND LICENSE SUSPENDED. “If I had thought the warning ] recently issued had come to your ears I would have sent you to prison,” said Mr S. L. Paterson, S.M., in the Hamilton Police Court on Monday, when addressing Joseph Bernard McGrath, a cartage contractor, aged 39, at Otorohanga (Mr W. J. King), who pleaded guilty to a charge of being intoxicated while in charge of a lorry. Senior-Sergeant G. H. Lambert said accused was seen driving a lorry home from the races on Saturday. He was stopped by a traffic inspector and was taken to the police station. A doctor certified that he was unfit to drive. Mr King said that defendant depended on his driver’s license for his living. The case was not a serious one, for he appeared to be sober when he left the racecourse, and he drove reasonably well into town. Evidence regarding defendant’s g-aod character was given by the traffic inspector, F. C. J. Cook. The magistrate said that a man who depended on his driver’s license for his living and took liquor did it with his e es open. Defendant was fined £l5 and his driver’s license was suspended until May 31 next.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 56, Issue 4016, 23 February 1938, Page 7
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205MAGISTRATE’S WARNING Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 56, Issue 4016, 23 February 1938, Page 7
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