MOTORIST FINED £l5

Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22152, 25 September 1943, Page 6

MOTORIST FINED £ls

INTOXICATION ADMITTED Pleading guilty of being intoxicated in charge of a motor vehicle in Grey Street on September 18, Edward Alexander Page, aged 35, manager of the Waikato Bitumen Company, Limited, was convicted and fined £ls and had his driver’s license endorsed by Mr S. L. Paterson, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, Hamilton, yesterday. Senior-Sergeant A. G. McHugh said that about 4 p.m. on the day in question defendant in pulling into the kerb crashed his truck into the rear of another vehicle. When taken to the police station he was found to be intoxicated. Mr W. J. King explained that defendant on the day of the offence had driven to a friend’s place. He had consumed two small bottles of home brew with his friend and later in the afternoon began to feel ill. He had pulled into the kerb and in so doing crashed into a stationary vehicle. Defendant, said Mr King, was not a heavy drinker, and in view of the fact that he was engaged on essential work, counsel ask that the driver’s license should not be cancelled.