Charge Against Dr. Dismissed
f.Vew Zealand Press Association) GISBORNE, April 27. A Gisborne doctor was discharged without conviction under section 42 of the Criminal Justice Act, on condition he paid £lO towards the cost of the prosecution by Mr L. N. Ritchie, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court today.
Joseph Vance Gibson, aged 52, pleaded guilty to failing to comply with directions given to him by a constable. Sergeant R. T. Keane said Gibson, in parking his car in Gladstone road, drove his front wheel over the parking rail. He was leaning over the wheel as if ill and showed
signs of having consumed liquor. The constable asked for his keys but Gibson refused to hand them over. Mr Kearney said Gibson had been to a social function that night but had left to telephone the hospital in connexion with two of his patients.
When parking his car he had hit the 6in wooden rail. When the constable asked for his keys, Gibson was quite satisfied he was in a fit state to drive.
This had been confirmed by examinations by two doctors, both of which were carried out at the police station.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30736, 28 April 1965, Page 7
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