USED FATHER'S NAME

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22356, 29 February 1936, Page 15

USED FATHER'S NAME

AN UNLICENSED DRIVER STATEMENTS MADE TO POLICE [from our own correspondent] PUKEKOHE, Friday In the Pukekohe Police Court to-day Percival James Kewish, a Tuakau farmhand, was charged before Mr. F. H. Lcvien, S.M., with giving a false name to the police, with driving a motor vehicle without a licence and with negligent driving. Mr. King, for defendant, entered a plea of guilty to the first two charges and not guilty to the last. It was stated that defendant, when asked by the police to produce his driving licence after an accident at Bombay on December 21, showed the licence belonging to his father, stating that it was his. He subsequently made a statement concerning the accident in his father's name. The driver of the other car involved in the accident, Thomas Paul Foley, cordial maker, of Whakatane (Mr. Grierson), was charged with negligent driving. He pleaded not guilty. After the hearing of lengthy evidence, the magistrate intimated to counsel that it waa useless to proceed further and he entered convictions against both defendants for fiegligent driving. "I have never had such candour from a witness," said Mr. Levien in referring to Foley. "Before he had said three sentences he had convicted himself of negligent driving." Foley was fined £2, with costs, 13s, and on the same charge Kewish was fined £2, with costs, 10s. For giving a false name Kewish was fined £3, with costs 10s, and for driving without a licence a fine of £l, with costs 13s, was imposed.