OFF ROAD FOR THREE YEARS

Taranaki Daily News, 18 July 1929, Page 13

OFF ROAD FOR THREE YEARS

MOTORIST WHO WAS INTOXICATED CASES BEFORE THE MAGISTRATE. “In view of the circumstances following the accident, I shall not inflict such a "severe penalty as I otherwise would have done, but I shall take him off the road for some time. He will be fined £lO, his license will be suspended, and he will be disqualified from driving for three years. In addition he will have to pay £1 15s 6d costs.” Nelson Oswald Ebbett was thus addressed by Mr. R. W. Tate, S.M., at the New Plymouth Court yesterday after he had pleaded guilty to being drunk while in charge of a motor-ear on June 9. Senior-Sergeant McCrorie said Ebbett was a salesman. He had been found intoxicated and injured on the floor of his car in St. Aubyn Street; Mr. J. M. Hine said Ebbett was a young man. There was no suspicion that °he was intoxicated when he left his friends. In the circumstances, he suggested a heavy penalty was not called Dt for. Owing to the extent of the injuries received to his chest there had been a possibility of pneumonia setting in and he had already been severely punished. Repairs had cost, him £lO.O. He was not in the habit of indulging in liquor to any extent and was recognised by his friends and employers as a steady, honest man with considerable business ability. Frank Lawson was fined 40s and 10s costs for cutting the corner of Devon and Currie Streets when driving his motor lorry. Frederick H. Barnitt, who cut the same corner, was penalised by a similar fine and the same amount of costs. Having left his car in Egmont Street longer than ten minutes, George Picard was fined 10s, with 10s costs. Because he parked his car in Currie Street in a position contrary to the bylaws and could not produce his license to Inspector Blyde, Thomas M. Magee was fined 20s, with 20s costs. As his car did not have an efficient foot brake when the inspector tested it, Leonard James’ Thomas was fined 40s with 10s costs. After being convicted Nathan Bremer was ordered to pay 10s costs for riding a motor-cycle at Spotswood without a head light showing. Charged with refusing to comply with the instructions of a traffic inspector on the road near the Bell Block aerodrome, Harold C- Carter was fined 40s, with 20s costs.