STRONG PENALTIES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 194, 18 July 1939, Page 8

STRONG PENALTIES.

INTOXICATED DIOTORISTS. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, July 17. Thirty days’ gaol in one case and a £SO fine in the second were the sentences imposed on two ' intoxicated motorists when they' were charged before Mr. E. C. Levvey in the Dlngistrate’s Court this morning. The two accused were Walter Andrew DlcDlillan, a farm manager of Irwell, Leeston, aged 53, who was fined £SO and his licence cancelled for two y'ears, . and Thomas Raymond Warren, aged 28, a carpenter who was sentenced to thirty days’ hard labour and his licence cancelled for four years. Before dealing with the prosecutions Sub-Inspector Packer pointed out that, up to July 17 last year, 21 charges of driving while intoxicated had been laid, while so far this year there had been 28, including the two to-day. So far this month five persons had been charged. There were three charges in January', three in April, and five in June. “McMillan’s motor-ear went over a three-foot bank on the corner of the Christchurch-Springston highway early on Sunday morning, - ’ said the subinspector. “Inquiries revealed that DlcMillan had had a slight collision with another car.”

In dealing with Warren’s case the sub-inspector said that accused ran into a cyclist from behind. It was then found he was intoxicated.

The Dlagistrate pointed out that Warren had been convicted for a similar offence ill February, 19j;S!jS. H...