DRUNKEN DRIVER

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21190, 10 November 1938, Page 11

DRUNKEN DRIVER

SEVEN DAYS’ IMPRISONMENT By Telegraph—Press Association INVERCARGILxj, November 9. Charles Patrick Frewen was sent to prison for seven days by Mr R. C. Abernethy, S.M., for being Intoxicated while in charge of a car. He was seen driving by a constable, but did not stop when signalled, and the constable arrested him 40 minutes later as he was walking down a street. He was also disqualified from holding a driver’s license for a year.

"No, I am not a refugee from Central Europe.” Dr. H. Schmidt, formerly of Vienna, who arrived at Wellington from England in the Arawa and who is bound for Dunedin, had the above answer ready almost before the question was asked at the beginning of an interview. He explained with a smile that whenever people he met learned that he was Viennese they Immediately wanted to know if he was another professional man forced to leave his homeland. Dr. Schmidt, who Is accompanied by his English wife, has come to New Zealand to make his home and practise his profession here. They are young people and are looking forward with enthusiasm to the task of establishing themselves in New Zealand. The doctor speaks faultless English, which he said he had learned from his wife and their English friends. He has recently been living in England. On the whole, the German annexation of Austria was welcomed by the mass of the people, he said. Certainly the new Government had been forced on them, but it was a welcome change from the previous regime, which had also been maintained by force.