UNWELCOME GUESTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 14 October 1926, Page 7

UNWELCOME GUESTS.

THE VISITORS OR THE TWINS? Br TeleeraDli—Pres* Anociatlon AUCKLAND, October 13. A statement that defendant became intoxicated in his own motor garage, where he had provided “a sort of private bar,” waß made by counsel in the police court when a fine of £25 was imposed on William Thomas Watson, a plumber, for being drunk when in charge of a motor car. The Magistrate (Mr Hunt) also ordered cancellation of defendant’s license for six months. Evidence was given that defendant just missed colliding with a boy with a trolley. A constable said he went to defendant’s home and found him asleep in the front seat of the car in the garage. Defendant admitted getting drunk in his garage. He had a space partitioned off as'a sort of private bar. His wife had visitors whom he did not want to see, and having an hour to spend he had a few drinks in the garage. His wife had recently presented him with twins. The Magistrate: “Were those the visitors he did not want to see?”