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INTOXICATED MOTOR SALESMAN “With Hie misfortune that always seems to dog him, the collision took place right outside the house of Constable Reilly,”'said Mr. Bryce Hurt, who appeared for Richard Francis Hammond, 33, a motor car salesman, charged in the Magistrate’s Court at Auckland Avitli being in a state of intoxication while in charge of his motor car in Panmure road, Ellerslie. lluifimoil'd pleaded guilty. Mr. Hart: Unfortunately my client is a motor car salesman. Could Your Worship deal with him in such a way that lie could prohibit himself instead of having liis license cancelled'? The magistrate: No. His license is'going to go. He can have a prohibition order as well if he likes. The magistrate fined Hammond £2o and cancelled his license for 12 months. Mr. Hart remarked that it would be hard on accused to have his license taken away, a* lie was a car salesman. “Can’t lrefp that,” said the magistrate. “He can sell perambulators now.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17100, 5 November 1929, Page 11
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162LICENSE CANCELLED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17100, 5 November 1929, Page 11
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