CLEMENCY FOR YOUTH

Evening Star, Issue 22938, 21 April 1938, Page 10

CLEMENCY FOR YOUTH

MOTOR SALESMAN DRUNK AT WHEEL AUCKLAND, April 21. “It is only your youth that stops me from dealing very severely with you. This case would have meant a JCICK) lino if 1 had been dealing with an adult,” said Mr Hunt, S.M., to Erie Douglas Mathiesou fl 8). motor salesman, who admitted being in a state of intoxication while in charge of a car in Ponsouby road last night. He was convicted, placed on probation for two years, his license to be cancelled for 12 months, and was also ordered to pay the damage done to the car. The police said that at about 11 last night, the conductor of a tram saw a car without lights following. The car was seen to collide with a stationary car, part of its rear being damaged. A police sergeant who was on the tram, stopped the car, and medical examination revealed that the .“ rl . v ° r ’ Mathieson, was drunk. He said that two drinks of wine had been given him bv a man at Hendt'rson. Before inllicting a penalty. Mr Hunt called for a report by the probation officer,. ; . , • • ■ •