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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 28 April 1922, Page 7

Mr. A. M. Mowlem, S.M., in don I ins with a charge of driving without lights against the driver of a gig in Broadway, Stratford, said that it appeared to him that fines had now ceased to> he sufficient in cases of driving without lights, and he believed that representations would be made to the Government to have the law altered, providing for a term of imprisonment for such offences. People seemed hardly to realise the great danger which arose from driving without lights, and perhaps if they knew they were liable to imprisonment tliev might act differently. Those ro- ! marks, said his Worship, were not made with particular reference to the driver of the gig, but defendant should recognise the serious risk ho had himself run and the serious danger he had been to I others.