INTOXICATED MOTORISTS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 26 June 1936, Page 5

INTOXICATED MOTORISTS

WOMAN FINED. AUCKLAND, Thursday. A charge of being intoxicated while in charge of a motor car was admitted in the Otahuhu S.M. Court by Williamina Kemp, aged 40. Sergeant Cahill said the defendant was driving along Bucklands Beach Road, when the car went over a bank for a distance of about 20 feet. The car was damaged, but neither the driver nor the pa'ssenger was injured. A constable was summoned, and he found the defendant in a state of intoxication. Mr C. G. Lennard, for defendant, said she had been driving for a few months, and the accident was really the result of inexperience. The defendant admitted having had three “sherries” during the afternoon.

The presiding Justices said the offence was a serious one, and there was no difference between men and women in law. If a driver took liquor while in charge of a car the consequences had to be faced. Defendant was fined £lO, with costs £1 3s. Her driving license was cancelled, and she was disqualified from holding a license for a period of two years.—'(P.A.) LICENSE CANCELLED. PALMERSTON NORTH, This Day. “No man found guilty of being drunk in charge of a car will be permitted to retain his license,” said Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., in cancelling the license of Francis James Foster, a farmer, of Taikorea, for twelve months and fining him £ls, on a charge of having been intoxicated while in charge of a car on the Longburn-Foxton road yesterday. The police stated that defendant collided with an oncoming ear, though the latter had gone off the bitumen on to its correct side.

The solicitor for defendant said lie was a dairy company director and chairman of a drainage board, therefore a car was essential for his semi-public duties, whereupon the Magistrate made the comment quoted above. —(P.A.)