ONE MONTH’S GOAL

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLI, Issue 20335, 6 February 1936, Page 8

ONE MONTH’S GOAL

MOTORIST WHO IMPERILLED LIFE By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, February 5. “Speaking generally, drivers under the influence of liquor who place innocent lives in peril must expect to lose their liberty for a time,” s~ ’' 'r Justice Smith in the Supreme Court when he sentenced Robert Hunter Service, a bank audit inspector, to three months’ imprisonment on a charge of negligent driving, thereby causing bodily injury, to which prisoner pleaded guilty. The accident occurred at Lower Hutt on October 26. A car driven by prisoner collided with a car driven by Kenneth Carmichael, a freezing works hand, of Palmerston North. Carmichael was accompanied by his wife and child, and they were all injured. His Honour, in imposing sentence, said that although there was no specific second division in New Zealand prisons, he had no doubt that the prisoner’s case would be properly dealt with by the gaol authorities and that he would be kept apart from ordinary prisoners. His Honour said he would request the Minister of Justice to arrange that that should be done. In addition to the term of imprisonment, Service had his drivers’ license cancelled and he was prohibited from obtaining a new one for a period of two years.