INTOXICATED DRIVER
PRISON SENTENCE AT AUCKLAND
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, August 27. John Mansin Tuck, aged 41, a timber merchant, of Hamilton, said by his counsel to have been Waikato’s first All Black, was to-day sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment with hard labour for being intoxicated in charge of a car on the Devonport vehicular ferry wharf on August 19. He pleaded guilty before Mr L. G. H. Sinclair, S.M.
Tuck’s counsel said that he was returning from Whangarei, the day after Waikato won the Ranfurly Shield. One doctor had certified Tuck as a “borderline case,” and another certified that he was affected to only a “mild degree.” Notwithstanding that Tuck was a prominent business man with an unblemished record, the Court could not do other than impose a prison term, said the Magistrate.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26511, 28 August 1951, Page 3
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