POINTED COMMENT

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXVII, Issue 62, 8 February 1939, Page 3

POINTED COMMENT

BY CHIEF JUSTICE MYERS MOTORISTS AND LIQUOR. DUNEDIN, Last night. Pointed comment on the relation of fermented liquors to motor driving and' citizenship, apart altogetherfrom the crime of intoxication in charge of a ear, was made by the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers), in his summing-up in a case before the Supreme Court to-day. “A motorist who drives a ear on a long journey, lie it over good roads or bad, after having consumed four glasses of stout and port wine mixed is not showing himself to be a good citizen,” said his Honor. “I make such a statement without the least hesitation, and I think that you will agree with me, ’ ’ he said, addressing the jury. “But I would not like you to be led away by that remark. Accused is not charged with not being a good citizen. Nevertheless, you may think, as I do, that it is most reprehensible conduct for a man to swill to use a colloquialism, four glasses of such a mixture. What you have to determine, however, is what his condition was at 3 o’clock in the morning, some hours after he had the drinks,” concluded his Honor.