INTOXICATED DRIVER
FINE OF £2O IMPOSED A fine of £2O and costs was imposed on Solomon Thompson, labourer, aged 33 years, of Kauangaroa, in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., on a charge of being in a state of intoxication in Victoria Avenue while in charge of a motor-car. His motor driver’s licence was cancelled for a year. Sergeant R. J. F. Whiting said that a traffic officer in Victoria Avenue noticed two old cars proceeding along the roadway. One vehicle stopped and the other bumped into it. When Thompson was interviewed by the traffic officer, he was unsteady on his feet, smelt strongly of liquor and his speech was thick and incoherent. Later during the day the traffic officer saw accused driving the car in Victoria Avenue. Accused was taken into custody and was certified by a doctor as being in a state of intoxication and unfit to drive a car. Default was fixed at a month’s imprisonment r
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 254, 27 October 1938, Page 5
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164INTOXICATED DRIVER Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 254, 27 October 1938, Page 5
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