UNFIT TO DRIVE
A LICENSE CANCELLED. (Per Press Association —Copyright)* CHRISTCHURCH, May 17. “There is nothing to be said for a man who indulges in >his class of offence twice,” said Air Levvey, S.M., , to-day in sentencing Oswald Buckham Cluvton to six months’ imprisonment for being intoxicated in charge of a car. Clayton, who was described on the charge sheet as a company manager, aged forty-one, was fined £lO on a similar charge last July, and had his licence enclosed. This morning, the Magistrate cancelled Clayton’s licence, and declared him .unfit to drive tor five years. “fhTfact that,Clayton was driving a ear with only one headlight, led to liis arrest, said Senior Sergeant Calwell. Clayton could not give any coherent account as to why he had onlv one headlight, and was taken to the polico station.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 May 1937, Page 2
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