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INTOXICATED MOTORISTS
(By Telegraph— Press Association.i
AUCKLAND, This Day. "It is a most unpleasant task to deal with respectable men with family responsibilities, but the public must be protected. Unless there are unusual circumstances the penalty is imprisonment," said the Magistrate, Mr. Morling, at the Police Court today, when he sentenced Bertram Augustus Hugh Buscomb (55), gardener, and Hedwin Arthur William Swenson (46), farmer, to seven days' imprisonment, for being in a state of intoxication wrile in charge of motor vehicles.
The police said that Buscomb ran his motor-cycle on a road roped off for repairs and was observed to be intoxicated. Swenson's car hit a safety zone in Queen Street and was driven into a side street, where Swenson was found to be in an intoxicated condition.
The driving licences of both men were cancelled for twelve months.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 26, 30 July 1940, Page 9
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