Prison Sentence For Driviirea 'Menace'
CHRISTCHURCH, Mon. (P.A.).—“I wonder that you had the nerve to take any liquor in view of that entry on your card,” said Mr Rex C. Abernethy, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court this morning when sentencing to three weeks’ imprisonment Arthur Percy Ford, aged 28, carpenter, against whom two charges arising out of a collision in Manchester Street'on Saturday night were preferred. “You might have killed somebody again,” the magistrate added. For failing to stop after the accident Ford was fined £6. Ford’s licence was cancelled and he was prohibited from obtaining another for two years. When Mr C. V. Lester, on Ford’s behalf, suggested cancellation of his licence over an extended period tc meet the offence, the Magistrate said: “I have decided, in view of Ford's previous conviction, that he will go to gaol. He is a menace.” The Magistrate added that, in 1941, Ford' was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment on a charge of negligent driving causing death,
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Northern Advocate, 27 September 1949, Page 4
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