INTOXICATED IN CHARGE
DOCTOR FINED £25 By TelpgrapD Press Association WELLINGTON. October 27. Charged with being drunk while in charge of a car, a medical practitioner, Selwyn Langstaffe Haslett, was fined £25 in the .Magistrate’s Court yesterday, and his driving license was endorsed. Senior-Sergeant Dempsey described how on Friday night Constable Wilson found the defendant in a stationary car. He was lying asleep across the wheel. The constable woke him up. and took him to the Taranaki Street station, where two medical men saw him and stated him to be intoxicated. Mr A. J. Mazengarb said that accused had recently disposed of his practice in the north and had come to Wellington. The worry and work involved in taking over a new practice had proved very exhausting, and accused had taken a drink to buck himself up. He had not been driving the car, but was merely asleep in it.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19942, 29 October 1934, Page 8
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150INTOXICATED IN CHARGE Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19942, 29 October 1934, Page 8
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