INTOXICATED DRIVERS
FINES’ LITTLE EFFECT
[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
AUCKLAND, July
When three motorists were charged in the Police Court with being in charge of cars when in a state of intoxication. the magistrate, Mr. V. R. McKean, S.M., commented on the great increases in this class of offence, and suggested a spacial division of prison. A strange coincidence was that two men hit the same end of the same safety zone, and both injured their noses.
“Penalties imposed during the last few weeks apparently have not acted as a deterrent,” said Mr. McKean, in dealing with one accused. “I have said I would increase them. There have been 15 convictions since June 1 for this offence. J shall have to consider imprisonment, but because of his health I do not want to send the accusedto prison. If there were a separate division in prison. I would have no hesitation in doing so, but separate division or no separate division, I will have to do it sooner or later for this sort of offence, as fines do not seem to have any effect. The only other thing to do is to increase the period of suspension of licenses.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 July 1936, Page 5
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