ERRATIC CAR DRIVING

Taranaki Daily News, 4 January 1933, Page 2

ERRATIC CAR DRIVING

INCIDENT AT NGAMOTU.

MAN ADMITTED TO PROBATION.

Probation for two years and cancellation of his driving license was ordered Leslie Gordon Tuck, relief worker, Inglewood, who was charged in the New Plymouth Police Court yesterday with drunkenness while in charge of a car. A condition was that he should take out a prohibition order. Hugh Francis Healy, another Inglewood man, was fined 10s for drunkenness. Messrs. O. E. Flyger and W. Birdling, J’s.P., presided. Both men were concerned in a motoring incident on Ngamotu beach about 5.30 p.m. on Monday during the progress of the regatta-picnic. The circumstances were explained by Senior-Sergeant Turner. The attention of the policemen on duty was drawn to a car being driven in an unusual manner on the hard sand and then on the soft sand, but before they could reach it it was driven up Pioneer Road on to the Breakwater Road. Sergeant McGregor and Constable Fleming then requisitioned another car in which they overtook the first to discover that it was driven by Tuck, with Healy as his companion, both being under the influence of liquor. Both of them were arrested and brought to the police station in the sergeant s car. - The danger attendant on such conduct, especially when there was a picnic on the beach, was emphasised by Sen-ior-Sergeant Turner.