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He Met a Friend ! TIPSY MOTORIST SENTENCED. [Per Press Association.! AUCKLAND, December 5. “Apparently it does not matter what penalty is imposed, as it is not having the effect expected,” remarked Mr W. R. McKean, S.M., in the Otahuhu Police Court, when’Thomas Charles Peek, aged 37, a commercial traveller, admitted being found intoxicated while in charge of a motor car. Counsel said that the accused had called at his club in town, and met a friend, who was also with a motor car in the city. The accused stayed with him, and persuaded him not to drive, in view of his condition. The effect of having no lunch and a few drinks had upset the accused, who was driving slowly towards Otahuhu, where he intended to get a meal, when he was accosted. The accused was married, with two children, who would suffer through any penalty imposed. The Magistrate said he did not doubt counsel’s statement that the accused bore a. good character. He had taken no heed of the many warnings issued by the Court. “I cannot make distinctions,” he added, in imposing a sentence of seven days’, imprisonment and the cancellation of the accused’s license for six months. “I have cancelled for that period on the assumption that the accused will have to pay someone to drive his car,” added Mr McKean. • • '
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Grey River Argus, 6 December 1938, Page 7
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