DRUNKEN MOTORISTS
Penalty Will Be Prison MAGISTRATE’S PREDICTION By Telegraph.—Press Association. . Auckland, September 5. Although defendant’s counsel pleaded that the cancellation of defendant’s motor-driving license would mean that he would lose his business, the Magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt, to-day fined Harold Leslie Lang, aged 33, a firewood merchant, £l5 and cancelled his license for six months for being intoxicated while in charge of a motor-truck at three o’clock on Sunday morning. It was stated that he had never been in trouble before. “He will have to lose his business, that is all,” said the magistrate. “If people drive cars when they have taken liquor they know what is coming to them. These men will be getting three months soon. Magistrates all over the Dominion are threatening to send these men to gaol. “I know myself that magistrates are receiving letters asking why they do not send drunken motorists to gaol. I suppose I will get some letters tomorrow morning abusing me.”
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 293, 6 September 1932, Page 7
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162DRUNKEN MOTORISTS Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 293, 6 September 1932, Page 7
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