MOTORING MISHAPS
PENALTIES INCREASED. (Per Press Association.) HAWERA, July 21. Dealing with two police cases of negligent motoring at the Court, the Magistrate. Mr Barton, in addition to imposing fines on defendants, ordered the convictions to be endrosed on their licenses. Four persons were concerned. Sergt. Henry remarked that the time was coming when it would be necessary to ask for higher penalties in cases of negligence. At the conclusion of the hearing of the cases, the Magistrate intimated he was adopting a policy of higher penalties for cases of negligent driving and cutting corners, remarking that he had already in other centres cancelled two licenses this week for these particular offences. A FATAL CAPSIZE. INVERCARGILL, July 20. A young man, Desmond Keith, whose skull was fractured a fortnight ago through a motor car capsizing, died in the hospital to-day. He never regained consciousness.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 July 1927, Page 5
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