DEATH OF PILLION RIDER
CYCLIST PENALISED NO LICENSE FOR FOUR YEARS (Per Press Association. —Copyright.) WELLINGTON, This Day. When Stanley Keith Swan appeared in the Supreme Court yesterday for sentence on a charge of negligently driving a motor cycle, thereby causing the death of a pillion rider on the cycle, he was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within a year.' In addition, he was disqualified from obtaining a driver’s license this year and (he following three years. The Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, said if the person killed had been a pedestrian or one of the three persona in the car with which accused had collided, nothing would have saved him from a sentence of at least a year.
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Northern Advocate, 28 July 1934, Page 9
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