TWO YEARS’ GAOL TERM
Intoxicated Driving Caused Death a (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, May 15. Imprisonment for two years and cancellation of his driving licence for three years was the sentence passed today on Leendert Joseph Wolter, aged 27. painter, by the Chief Justice, Sir Harold Barrowclough, in the Supreme Court at Auckland. Wolter had been found guilty by a jury of driving while intoxicated and causing death. This was not a case which called for the imposition of the maximum penalty, the Chief Justice said.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28896, 16 May 1959, Page 11
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