LIQUOR AND MOTORING

Taranaki Daily News, 8 May 1930, Page 7

LIQUOR AND MOTORING

LABOURER AND HIS CAR. CANCELLATION OF LICENSE. “A man who earns his living clearing gorse does not need a motor-car to do it,” said the magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in tho Police'Court at Auckland on Tuesday when Michael James McGrath, aged 35, was charged with being

• intoxicated while in charge of a motor- > car. Accused pleaded guilty. ■. I Sub-Inspector Shanahan said a com- . plaint had been made to the police, as [ a result of which Constable Wilson had : j gone to a city hotel. He saw accused ; I come out of the bar and walk unstead- > ily to the motor-car, where he took tho driver’s seat and commenced to start the engine. At this stage the constable intervened and arrested accusjd. Accused said he was ,in fairly steady work clearing gorse. He had a wife and five children to support. The magistrate: What arc you doing with a motor-car, while you are keeping five children? Accused admitted that ho had purchased the car on the hire-purchase system. The magistrate: Well, you had better • get rid of the car. You arc fined £l6, and your license is cancelled, no other to be issued for 12 months. Subsequently tho magistrate said he I would reduce tho fine to £5, on account | of accused’s family. He would hava to I give up ths motor-car.