SUPREME COURT

Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1937, Page 6

SUPREME COURT

DRIVER GAOLED, (Per Press Association —Copyright). WELLINGTON, September 16. William Albert John Grey Ivempton, driver of a truck that collided with the C'arterton-Masterton l)\is and failed to stop, was sentenced to three months hard labour by Judge Smith in the Surpemo Court. Justice Smith said he could not accept the view that prisoner thought he had struck a water table. 'I lie blow must have been severe and it was a matter of good fortune that file persons in the bus were not seriously injured. He had come to a conclusion the statute had been directly enacted to assist in preserving the safety of travellers on the highway and in his judgment it had to be enforced, and the t.nl\‘ way it could be enforced wa s imprisonment. Prisoners sentenced by Judge Smith: —Thomas Joseph Kane, 28, clerk, twelve charges of obtaining execution of valuable securities and one ol theft, two years’ reformative. Peter McNieol, 24, baker and labourer. breaking, entering, and theft, nine-; teen charges, breaking and entering, with intent, five charges, attempted; breaking and entering, one charge,; to three years’ hard. Frederick Walter McLennan, 33,j a motor mechanic, for obtaining goods j valued at £BO 12s Id by false pretences. to two years' hard. Edward Luce. 57, dairy farmer, for. incest, to one year hard. Henry Allan, 39. salesman, theft, to one year reformative. George Norman Earmworth, 23, labourer and salesman, false pretences,, two years’ reformative.