NO EXCUSE FOR SPEEEDING
AIR. AIOSLEf, S.AL, SPEAKS Oil, N plea for a lenient penalty because a doctor was speeding, was made before AH. E. 1). Alosley, S.AL, in tin Ala gist-rate’s Court at Christchurch. It vvas urged on behalf of the defendant chat he was driving a doctor to town. •‘lt a doctor who is going to a case of the utmost urgency is charged before me with speeding,” said Air. Alcsley, ‘‘i would not take that into consideration. It would not matter ii the King were being brought to town. A doctor should not endanger the lives ■j£ others to save the life of a patient. There were 178 deaths last year from motor accidents in. New Zealand. If the motoring by-laws had been observed there would not have been a of the deaths. There iabsolntely no excuse for it.”
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Patea Mail, Volume XLIX, 19 November 1928, Page 3
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142NO EXCUSE FOR SPEEEDING Patea Mail, Volume XLIX, 19 November 1928, Page 3
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