DRUNKEN MOTORISTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 24 December 1927, Page 5

DRUNKEN MOTORISTS.

FINED £25. For being found in charge of a motor-car while ill a state of intoxication on Thursday evening, William Alex Garden, a land salesman, aged ;;7, was fined £25 and had his license suspended until March .'ll, 1925, by .Messrs. D. 11. lEdgar and J. E. Staples, J.P.•'s in the Wellington .Magistrate's Court yesterday. Sub-Inspector Lander stated that accused had been seen to leave a motor-car in Courtenay Place shortly after's o’clock and walk across the road unsteadily to a hotel. The police were communicated with, and when some time later Garden entered his ear he was arrested in an intoxicated condition. Mr A. .1. Mazengarb stated that although his client had pleaded guilty he had not been really driving the car. Another land salesman employed by the same firm always drove, and Garden was merely waiting for his friend to return. Accused had been having a few drinks on account of it being Christmas time, but knowing his condition he had no intention of driving the car. Under the circumstances counsel asked that his client’s license not be cancelled. Mr Edgar: The Court looks on this as a serious offence, especially at this time of Die year; for at present it takes a sober man all his time to drive through the streets without meeting with an accident. Accused was allowed one month in which to pay his fine. A FINE OF £25. WELLINGTON, This Day. Intoxication lias cost another ‘motorist his license for the rest of the year, and also a £25 fine, in default three months ’ imprisonment. To-day it was a civil servant, William Lewis Comrie (.')4), who was arrested on suspicion by his excessive speed near the Lambton station, and was folowed by the police and arrested.