TWO WEEKS' GAOL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23215, 8 December 1938, Page 20

TWO WEEKS' GAOL

INTOXICATED DRIVER

FIVE YEARS' SUSPENSION COMMENT BY MAGISTRATE £from our own correspondent] CAMBRIDGE, Wednesday A Maori, Mana Ranapia, was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment with hard labour by Mr. S. L. Paterson, S.M., in the Cambridge Police Court to-day. when convicted on a charge oi being drunk in charge of a motor-car. He pleaded guilty. Constable C. H. Massey said he saw accused in a drunken condition on November 25. He got into his car and endeavoured t° drive away. However, he took a wide turn in Duke Street and pulled up against the kerb. W it 1 - ness took him to the police station. Mr. W. R. Garrard asked for leniency as accused had a wife and six young children. If he went to gaol he would lose his job. "Ranapia's concern for his family conies too late," said the magistrate. "His actions may have permanently deprived another family of its breadwinner." In addition to being sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment accused was prohibited from holding a driver's licence for live years from Juno 1* 1939. Earlier in the day Ranapia had been fined £'s, and his licence was suspended until May 31, 1939, for driving his car in a dangerous manner on the Hamil-ton-Cambridge road on October 23.