Deferred Sentence
Gavin Edgar Kinsman, aged 41, a cook, was ordered to come up for sentence within one year if called upon when he appeared before Mr Justice Wilson in the Supreme Court on a charge of driving while disqualified. Mr K. N. Hampton appeared for Kinsman and Mr N. W. Williamson for the Crown. On May 14 Kinsman appealed against a sentence of six months imprisonment imposed on the charge in the Magistrate’s Court. His Honour quashed the term of imprisonment and substituted one of six months periodic detention.
His Honour said that the sentence imposed on May 14 was expressly forbidden by the Act but he had overlooked it
Hole In One.—A J. Dickie, using a S-iron. holed his tee shot on the seventh hole at Avondale on Sunday.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32313, 3 June 1970, Page 11
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