DRUNK AT THE WHEEL.
MONTH S GAOL FOR MOTORIST. Bj Telegraph—Tress Association. Invercargill, Last Night. A young man named Robert Hugh ■Dixon was charged to-day with speeding, failing to stop when requested, and with being drunk while in charge of a motor car. The evidence for the prosecution was that the accused, who was drunk, travelled at 35 miles an hour and collided with another ear, doing serious damage. The magistrate said it was : a very bad case, and he sentenced Dixon to one jnonth’a hard labour.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1924, Page 9
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87DRUNK AT THE WHEEL. Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1924, Page 9
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