CONFISCATION OF CARS
Suggested Penalty For Drunken Drivers
By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND. January 11.
“Under the Fisheries Act if a man in a boat poaching oysters is convicted his boat is confiscated and forfeited to the Crown. Similarly, I cannot see why, where a man is convicted for being intoxicated while in charge of a car, his car should not be forfeited to the Crown,” said Mr. Levien, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court today when sentencing Alexander William Anderson, an Onehunga baker, to seven days’ imprisonment and cancelling his driver’s licence for IS months.
‘lt is my opinion,” added Mr. Levien, “that if this were done it would stamp this practice out very quickly. An oyster poacher is merely a picker of oysters, but an intoxicated driver may be a picker of human lives.”
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 92, 12 January 1939, Page 10
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134CONFISCATION OF CARS Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 92, 12 January 1939, Page 10
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