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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 136, 10 June 1936, Page 11

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INTOXICATED MOTORISTS. COMMENT BY MAGISTRATE. "I suggest that in future where an intoxicated motorist is being charged by the police with negligent driving and causing injuries lie should be charged under section 27 of the Motor Vehicles Act, which makes it an indictable offence punishable by a £500 fine, or five years' imprisonment, instead of under the summary charge of section 28, the maximum penalty for which is a £100 fine or three months' imprisonment." So said Mr. F." H. Levien, S.M., in the Papakura Court, when convicting George Herbert Stubbs, an elderly farmer, of Maungatangi, and Thomas Ward Green, a jockey, of Takanini, on charges of being in a state of intoxication while in charge of motor cars. Mr. Levien added that he did not think the Court should disregard the sentences being passed on intoxicated motorists in the higher Court. Sergeant J. T. Cowan, who prosecuted, stated that Stubbs collided with another car and turned it over at Runciman on April 14. Stubbs' car eventually ended up in a paddock behind a hedge, a passenger receiving cuts on the face. R. A. Lippincot, the driver of the car which was struck, said he was on his correct side of the road, going north, when he was run into by Stubbs. Stubbs was fined £50, and was prohibited from taking out another licensp for 18 months. In the case against Green, evidence that on May 1"J Green's car struck his car and tore off two wheels was given by John William Bygate, of St. Stephen's College. Green, was also fined £50, and the magistrate ordered that no driver's license should be issued to him for four years.