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CARELESS DRIVING CHARGE CANCELLATION OF LICENCE (Per United Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, Dec. 8. The extreme step of cancelling a man's driving licence for the offence of operating a motor vehicle without due car was taken in the Stratford Court to-day by Mr W H. Woodward, S.M., when he disqualified W. R. Mason, a farmer, of Kahouri road, Ngaere, from holding a licence for a month, and fined him the maximum penalty of £4. It was the first time a licence had been cancelled for such an offence in Taranaki.
The case was described by Sergeant Anniss as very serious He said that just after 5 D.m. on November 18 a P. and T. lorry was returning to Stratford through excavation works when the driver saw a car aporoaching him at excessive speed. He put the lorry right up against the bank to avoid a collision, but Mason's car did not slacken speed and struck the side of the lorry. It careered on for 150 feet and overturned. The speed of Mason's car was estimated to be 45 miles an hour.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23678, 9 December 1938, Page 7
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