FOURTEEN DAYS’ GAOL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 281, 27 November 1936, Page 8

FOURTEEN DAYS’ GAOL

INTOXICATED DRIVER CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 26. “The public must be protected, am because the accused chose to get inu this state he must suffer the const quences,” said Mr Mosley 7 in tn< Magistrate’s Court this morning ii sentencing Alexander Gunn, sales man, aged 39, to fourteen days' im prisonment with hard labour when h< appeared on a charge of being intoxi cated while in charge of a motor vehicle. An order was also made can celling Gunn’s licence until May 31 1937. Sub-Inspector Mac Lean said tha Gunn was arrested at 10.45 o'cloci last night after an accident in whicl a man and his wife, both on bicycles had been knocked over by a ca driven by Gunn. Fortunately no in jury was done to either of the cy clists. Mr D. W. Russell, for accused, sail

that Gunn was a married man with two small children. Yesterday he had been conducting an auction sale which had been so satisfactory that at the conclusion, Gunn had been invited to take some refreshment. “Gunn,” said Mr Russell, "went to the war while under age, and this has had an effect on his nervous system.’ “The motor-car is a dangerous machine in the hands of a man not competent to drive, and a man under the influence of liquor has his ability interfered with,” said the magistrate.