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! [Special To “Northern Advocate/ J AUCKLAND. Saturday. | Although he drove up from Wellingten this week, Charles Donald Barton, a photographer, aged 51. will not be able to drive his ear back again.
i “You must have known the risk i you wore taking,” remarked Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., when, in the Police Court ! to-day, Barton admitted that on I Thursday, while in a state o' inlox:j cation,, he was in charge ol a motor I car in Broadway. Newmarket.
! The magistrate fined Barton £25, ; and ordered that his license should be | cancelled and no other issued for 12 ' months.
j Mr Terry, appearing for accused, said Barton was a stranger from Wcl! 1 ington, from whence he find driven the i day before. He met business friends here, and since it was the day before the Easter holidays, the meeting developed into a “bit of a celebration. ’ It was just one of those lapses in
; which business was mixed with pleasure on the eve of a holiday. I
You must have known the risk you
were taking.” the magistrate told 'Barton. “You have had' plenty of j warnings on the radio and in the press almost every day.”
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Northern Advocate, 18 April 1938, Page 3
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