DRUNKEN DRIVER
TERM OF IMPRISONMENT By Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, October 31. Wilfred Hanson, aged 38 years, an accountant at Taihape, was sentenced to 14 days imprisonment, and was disqualified from driving a motor car for 18 months when he appeared on remand in the Police Court to answer a charge of intoxication while in charge of a motor car. The police said Hanson was found in a stationary car in Fort Street on Friday night. Defending counsel, while he did not contest the fact that an hour after his arrest Hanson was intoxicated, said he was quite all right when he started out to drive, but when the car stopped something went wrong, and he remained sitting in the closed vehicle, the stuffy atmosphere affecting him. The excitement of the arrest further upset him.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21182, 1 November 1938, Page 4
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134DRUNKEN DRIVER Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21182, 1 November 1938, Page 4
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