DRUNKEN MOTORIST
HEAVY PENALTY INFLICTED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Palmerston N., Dec. 13. Charged with drunkenness while in charge of a motor-car on Saturday, Joseph Rumble, farmer, Huaora, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court this morning. The police statement was that .while turning the corner of Broad and Ruahine Streets on Saturday evening defendant crashed into another car. At the tim,e he was travelling at between 35 and 40 miles an hour on the wrong side. Defendant, in his explanation, denied being drunk also driving at the speed alleged by the police. He was fined £lO and his license cancelled for now on, and not to be re-issued until six months after April 1 next.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 December 1926, Page 10
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