DISQUALIFIED FOR 15 YEARS
Auckland Driver Also Sent To Gaol (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, June 6. Already disqualified for 10 years from driving, Jack Pickering, aged 47, a crane driver, collided with another car yesterday afternoon, and today in the Auckland Magistrate's Court admitted charges of driving while under the influence of drink and driving while disqualified. Mr A. A. Coates, S.M., sent him to gaol for three months —“the maximum I can give”—and extended his disqualification period by five years. Police said Pickering turned a comer so widely that he struck a car on his wrong side. His licence was cancelled for 10 years last September on similar charges. Pickering had nothing to say.
The Magistrate said that for the last two years Pickering seemed to have done little else than come before the Court on driving and intoxication charges. He had convictions for dangerous driving, driving while affected by drink, negligent driving, and driving while disqualified. He was not fit to be on the road, and the Court would take care that he could not drive again for 15 years. The Magistrate ordered that any renewal of Pickering’s licence at the end of that time could only be with the Court’s consent.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29224, 7 June 1960, Page 10
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