TWO MONTHS ' GAOL.
INTOXICATED MOTORIST. “THOUGHT IT WAS MONDAY.” (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Saturday. Two months’ gaol without tiie option of >a fine was the sentence imposed on Samuel -Donald Holliday in the 'Police Court this morning, for being intoxicated in 'Charge of a motorcar on 'the main South Road las-t evening. - His 'present driving license was suspended and he was prohibited from procuring another for 18 'months. Halliday, a labourer, aged 47, collided with a woman cyclist who received a broken leg. The police said he was on 'the wrong side of the road. “When undergoing tests 'I asked llaiiid;ay what day of the week it w&j,” said llie sub-inspector,” and- he replied: ‘That 'is -not a fair question to put to a man.’ I repeated the question in Dr. Scott’s presence and eventually Halliday said it was Monday. Tint shows 'the state he was in.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19457, 22 December 1934, Page 7
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