DRIVER FOUND DRUNK.

DRIVER FOUND DRUNK. The Argus Saturday 12 September 1925, page 35. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2136697 A charge of having been drunk while in charge of a horse and vehicle in Gertrude Street on September 10 was preferred against Albert Williams, aged 40 years, at the Fitzroy Court on Friday. Mr. F. J. Bennell, J.P, was on the bench. Constable McFarlane said:-On September 10, I was in Gertrude Street when I saw a horse and waggon going in a ziz-zag manner along the street, I found, that Williams, the driver, was drunk. Williams was fined £2, in default imprisonment for 14 days.

DRUNK IN HOSPITAL
FINED

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The Canberra Times Monday 16 February 1948, page 3.

Claude Powell, labourer, of Capital Hill mess, who was admitted to the Canberra Hospital on Thursday with an amputated toe following an accident while chopping wood, was fined £2, in default four days Imprisonment by Mr. F. C. P. Keane, S.M., at the Canberra Court on Saturday. Powell pleaded guilty to being drunk in a public ward of the hospital. It was stated that Powell was creating a nuisance and was upsetting other patients.

Boy Found Drunk

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The Canberra Times Wednesday 16 January 1952, page 2.

SYDNEY, Tues. – A 14-years old boy had been found drunk on the roadside after, a shop-keeper had sold a bottle of wine to a 15-years-old youth, the Parramatta Court was told to-day. The shopkeeper, Leslie Morris Kenney, of Woodville Road, Old Guildford, was fined £100 for selling a bottle of wine on November 9 last.

Star (London, England), Friday, January 2, 1789; Issue 210.

 

 

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