SENTENCES TO GAOL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 121, 21 April 1938, Page 2

SENTENCES TO GAOL.

MOTOR DRIVERS PUNISHED. MAGISTRATE’S COMMENTS. Per Press Association. HAMILTON. April 20. “I have pointed out the seriousness of these offences many times before,” said the Magistrate (Mr S. L. Paterson) in passing sentence of imprisonment on motorists to-day. He added that the Press had urged Magistrates generally to become determined to exercise their powers to the full in the public interest so that the evil of motorists driving cars when intoxicated might soon be stamped out. “I am going to see these offences will be stopped if possible,” said Mr. Paterson. Montague Dowding Powell, aged 30, a taxi drivei', of Hamilton, accused of being intoxicated while in charge of a taxi at Frankton Junction on Sunday night, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment; his driver’s license was cancelled until June 1, 1940. Accused had three large bottles of beer in his taxi when he was arrested on the stand at the Frankton railway station at 2.35 o’clock in the morning. This was revealed by Sergeant Kelly. Arrested in Anglesea Street on Monday, George Leonard Brooks, aged 21, a 'bakery van driver, of Morrinsville, pleaded guilty to being intoxicated in charge of a motor vehicle. He was sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment and his license was cancelled until June 1, 1940. . “You are a young man,” the Magistrate told accused, “but you should have more control over yourself. While you were driving that car you were a danger to other drivers and a menace to pedestrians. If you were older I would make the term of imprisonment longer.” '