_The Evening Post_, 27 March 1925:
DRUNK IN A MOTOR-CAR

(BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
CHRISTCHURCH, 26th March.
William #Hayes, a farmer of West Melton, was charged before Mr. Cruickshank, S.M., with having been found in a state of intoxication while in charge of a motor-car. After hearing evidence the Magistrate said: “One has to make an example of a man like this. He is quite a decent man, but he had a glass of beer. After that it’s much easier to accept another, and gradually he got five beers into him.”
The sub-inspector: “There’s nothing suggested against his character.”
The Magistrate: “He is fined £5 [ca. $630 today], and disqualified from obtaining a driver’s license [sic] for six months from to-day. Six months is not a very long time, and he will have to use a #buggy or something when he comes in.”
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250327.2.146

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