GAOL FOR TWO MONTHS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19132, 29 September 1936, Page 13

GAOL FOR TWO MONTHS

DRUNKEN MOTORIST RENTAL GAR DAMAGED USE OF FALSE NAME (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Robert Franklin Dobson, aged 23 years, a porter, was to-dav sentenced to gaol for two months on a charge preferred in the Magistrate’s Court of being intoxicated while in charge of a car.

Dobson was also charged with signing a false name to obtain a rental car, with driving without a license, and with a breach of a prohibition order. On these charges lie was convicted and discharged. The police said that Dobson obtained a rental car by signing a false name and producing a license belonging to another man. Following a slight accident Dobson returned the car to the garage, where the damage to the vehicle was noticed, and the police were sent for. Dobson had been convicted of a similar offence two years ago and was admitted to probation, lie broke the probation order and was sentenced to detention in a Borstal institution for two years. He was now out of that institution on license.

John Daniel McDougall, on a charge of being intoxicated while in charge of a ear, was fined £2o' and costs, and his driving license was cancelled for, 12 months. TERM OF TWO WEEKS TARANAKI OFFENDER BAN FOR TWO YEARS (Per Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, this day. For being found in a state of intoxication while in charge of a. motor-truck about 1 o’clock yesterday morning, D’Arcy Charles Cavendish, who pleaded guilty, was to-day convicted and sentenced to gaol for 14 days and prohibited from obtaining a license for two years. On a charge of driving without a license he was convicted without a penalty.