NEGLIGENT DRIVING
PROBATION GRANTED By Telegraph—Press Association HAMILTON, February 19. Found guilty of the negligent driving of a car on the Great South Road near Ngaruawahia, causing the death of Ilene Courtney, a widow, Ernest Alwyn Plummer, a commercial traveller <25), was admitted to two years’ probation by Mr Justice Callan in the Supreme Court to-day. a special condition being that during that time he pays from his earnings a fine of £5O by instalments of £1 a week or such smaller sum as the Probation Officer thinks necessary. “Notwithstanding the gravity of the jffence, there are mitigating circumstances,” said his Honour. “There has been no callousness or gross disregard of others, but only thoughtlessness. The knowledge that it resulted in the death of a fellow-creature is in Itself a very severe punishment.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLI, Issue 20347, 20 February 1936, Page 10
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133NEGLIGENT DRIVING Timaru Herald, Volume CXLI, Issue 20347, 20 February 1936, Page 10
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