ALLEGED INTOXICATION IN CHARGE OF CAR
SOLDIER SHOWED NO SIGNS OF BEING DRUNK appren tice escapes term of IMPRISONMENT. 1 Ter PrM. AmooHUoq ] AUCKLAND, Dec. 27. That he was a lover of animals and swerved sharply to avoid a cat, causing his car to capsize, was the defence advanced by Arthur Forbes Milne, aged 32, soldier from Papakura Military Camp, pleading not guilty to a charge of intoxication while in charge of a motor-car. After hearing the evidence the magistrate, Mr. C. R. Orr Walker, dismissed the charge, stating that it must be remembered that Milne had been badly shaken and suffered a serious hand injury, also that the doctor who examined him at the hospital more than two hours after the accident considered he showed no signs of intoxication. In fining Clyde Robert Gracie, aged 21, carpenter’s apprentice, £3O for intoxication while in charge of a motorcar, Mr. Orr Walker said he had gone very close to a term of imprisonment. Circumstances indicated that while he had taken drink he was not drunk. He was ordered to take out a prohition order and his driving licence was cancelled.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 306, 28 December 1939, Page 2
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