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DRUNK IN MOTOR CAR THIRD TIME CONVICTED (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. “I would be failing in my duty !a the community if I did not sentence you to a short term of imprisonment,’’ said the magistrate, Mr. F. F. Reid, this morning, in sentencing Tom Voice a blacksmith, aged 70, to 14 days’ hard labour for being intoxicated in charge of a motor car. Voice had twice previously been convicted for the same offence. On the first occasion, he was fined £5 in 1034, and his-licen.se suspended, an again in 1935 he was fined £25. Sub-Inspector McLean said that Voice was not only intoxicated, but drunk.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19480, 12 November 1937, Page 13
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110SEPTUAGENARIAN GAOLED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19480, 12 November 1937, Page 13
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