DRUNK WITH MOTOR TRUCK
SUSPENSION AND £ls FINE. PENALTY AT AUCKLAND. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Sept. 5. Although defendant’s counsel plead ed that cancellation of his motor driving license would mean he would lose his business, the magistrate, Mr. F. K Hunt, to-day fined Harold Leslie Lang, aged 33, a firewood merchant, £ls and cancelled his driving license for s'.s months for being intoxicated in a motor truck at. three o’clock on Sunclay morinig. It was stated lie liao never been in trouble before. The magistrate: He’ll have to lose Kis business; that’s all. If people drive cars when they have taken lic;uo. they know wha-t’s coming to them These men will be getting three months soon. Magistrates all over the Dominion ar e threatening to send these men to gaol. I know myself that magistrates are receiving letters asking |why .they don’t send drunken motorists to gaol. I suppose I will !sonio letters ■bo-morrow abusing me.
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Hawera Star, Volume LII, 5 September 1932, Page 7
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