DRUNKEN MOTORISTS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 29 June 1933, Page 5

DRUNKEN MOTORISTS

A FINE OF £ls. > DANNEVIRKE, Wednesday. (Pleading guilty to a charge of having driven a motor vehicle at Oringi on loth June while in a state of intoxication, Edward John Houlihan, farmer, of Kiritaki, was fined £ls and costs by Mr J. Miller, S.M., in the Dannevirke Magistrate’s Court. Sergeant Doggett said accused had driven his ear into a bank at Oringi and capsized it. He had admitted having four whiskies during the afternoon. :■■■! ..C • : - :

Counsel for accused (said Houlihan had been drunk at six o’clock.and had gone to a friend’s home to have a meal and a sleep. He had taken every precaution possible, and had' endeavoured to effect a recpvery before returning home.

Mr J. Miller said lie would not cancel accused’s license, but would endorse it. —(P-A-) ■ LICENSE CANCELLED. PAHIATUA, Wednesday. Charges of a breach of a prohibition order and of failing to keep to the left side of the road when meeting a motor car were preferred against Albert Edwaird Peterson when he appeared in the Pahiatua Magistrate’s Court before Mr J. Miller, iS.M, A plea of not .guilty was entered by defendant. After lengthy evidence had been heard, the magistrate said he considered the charge of failing to keep to the left too minor under the circumstances, and at his suggestion the charge was substituted fop: one of driving in a manner which, having regard to the circumstances, might have been dangerous to the public.

Constable F. Burrell stated that on the night of 13th May he stopped a car driven by Alfred George Williams, which had only one headlight. It-pro-ceeded on toward Eketahuna and between Konini and Hamua collided with a motoir-cycle and sidecar driven by defendant, who was engaged in selling mercery. After the collision beer bottles were lying smashed on the road and 'one in the sidecar. Defendant, against whom there was a prohibition order, was the worse for liquor, which he had obtained in Eketahuna.

On the charge of a breach of his prohibition order defendant was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon , witliin a period of 12 months. On the eharge of negligent driving he. was convicted and fined £3 and costs and-his driver’s license was cancelled for 12 months. —(P.A.)