GAOL FOR MONTH
Disqualified Driver
(N.Z. Press Association) GISBORNE, Jan. 6. A Manurewa doctor was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment when he appeared before Mr W. M. Willis, S.M., in the Gisborne Magistrate’s Court, this morning. The doctor, Gordon Alexander Irwin, aged 58, pleaded guilty to a charge of driving while disqualified at the township of Tolaga Bay on December 30! The Magistrate extended Irwin’s period of disqualification until December 3, 1972. He said that only 27 days after being disqualified at Rotorua from driving for three years, Irwin had been seen driving. On his own admission he had driven previously. There could be only one penalty when a man of Irwin’s education and intelligence disobeyed an order of
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31880, 7 January 1969, Page 12
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119GAOL FOR MONTH Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31880, 7 January 1969, Page 12
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