A BAD CASE.
YOUTHFUL TAXI-DRIVER CON-
VICTED.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day-
‘‘One of the worse cases of the kind to come before me,” was remarked by Mr T, E. Maunsell, S.M. at the Magistrate’s Court in dealing with a series ofi offences brought against a youthful taxi-driver named Stanley David Wells, who was charged with drunkenness while in charge of a motor car, broach of a prohibition order and theft of a razor and strop valued at 15s. A sentence of one month’s imprisonment was imposed for being drunk while in charge of a car and his license was suspended and he was disqualified from applying for a' license for four years. On the charge of theft he was ordered to be detained at the Borstal Institution not exceeding two years. On the charge of breaking his prohibition order he was convicted and discharged.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 September 1927, Page 5
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146A BAD CASE. Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 September 1927, Page 5
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