CARELESS DRIVING
LICENSE CANCELLED (Per United Press Association.! NEW PLYMOUTH, December 8. The extreme step of cancelling a man’s driving license for the offence of operating a motor vehicle without due care was taken in the Stratford Court to-day by Mr W. H. Woodward, S.M.. when he disqualified W. R. Mason, a farmer, of Kahouri road, Ngaere, from holding a license for a month, and fined him the maximum penalty of £4. It was the first time a license had been cancelled or such an offence in Taranaki. The case was described by Sergeant Anniss as very serious. He said that just after 5 p.m. on November 18 a P and T. lorry was returning to Stratford through excavation works when the driver saw a car approaching him at excessive speed. He put the lorry ri-dit up against the hank to avoid a collision, but Mason’s car did not slacken speed and struck (he side of the loiry It i-arcorcd on for lolfft and over turned 4hi vpced of Mason’s ear was estimated to be 45 miles an hour.
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Evening Star, Issue 23136, 9 December 1938, Page 3
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179CARELESS DRIVING Evening Star, Issue 23136, 9 December 1938, Page 3
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