HAVING AN EFFECT
HEAVIER PENALTIES
INTOXICATED MOTORISTS
The effect of heavier penalties on motorists convicted of being intoxicated in charge oi: motor vehicles was referred to by Mr. J. H. Luxford, 5.M.,. in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, when George Howard Bennett, a golfclub maker, aged 23, pleaded guilty to being intoxicated in charge of a car on the Main Hutt Road at an early hour yesterday morning. Sub-Inspector J. A. Dempsey conducted the prosecution, and Mr. A. J. Mazengarb appeared for the accused. "Unfortunately," said Mr. Luxford, "it is quite impossible to deal with these matters by way of a fine. I am glad to say that Auckland Magistrates have taken the same view as I have taken. Since severer penalties have been inflicted there has been a very marked diminution in this class of offence."
Mr. Luxford said he thought that this was only the second case which had come before the Court at Wellington within the last eight weeks. Bennett was convicted and sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment, and his licence was cancelled until May 31, 1939.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 2, 2 July 1938, Page 19
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