WEEK-ENDS IN JAIL
Suggested Punishn eiit bur Dangerous Drivers By Telegraph—Pres*. Association. HasLng., Marvil 13. Dangerous motorists .n New Zeaicud may have to face the p.oqiect of gr iming their week-ends in jail if the A... 1-.-.-ean practice discu-sed by the Minis.c of Transport. Hou. it. .sempi:’. diif.ug a lecture at Napier on the u,'c:ai i.iis of the Public Works ami Tran port Departments lirst nigh. brought iu.o force in the Dominion. “In America —and 1 am lb nkni't i>i' ( doing it h. re—-they put Hie offemiei >n jail every Saturday morning and i; i 1 him there until Monday." said file M 'r. liter. “That U not visiting the sus of the father on the moihe. . a . ren, because it does not mean that be loses his position and income as be the case if lie were given a !■ ue term of imprisonment, li 1...• e . b tial murderers had to spend 12 immias of their Saturdays and .MlUiiitjs ... they would have something tu lh;uii about.”
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 143, 14 March 1938, Page 10
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167WEEK-ENDS IN JAIL Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 143, 14 March 1938, Page 10
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