FORTNIGHT’S GAOL
INTOXICATED MOTORIST By Telegraph—Press Association NEW PLYMOUTH, April 19. Fourteen days’ imprisonment was imposed by Mr W. H. Woodward, S.M., in the Waitara Magistrate's Court today on John Martin of Awakino, for intoxication while in charge of a motor-van at Awakino on February 5. Martin, who collided with a car driven by J. M. Hardcastle, company manager, of Auckland, denied that he was intoxicated but admitted negligent driving and driving without a licence. On the last two charges he was convicted and discharged.
George Batley, who was with Martin, and who told the police in the first place that it was he who drove the van, was fined £5 for knowingly supplying false information. He said that he did so to shield Martin.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21325, 20 April 1939, Page 2
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125FORTNIGHT’S GAOL Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21325, 20 April 1939, Page 2
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