MOTOR OFFENCES
IMPRISONMENT IN ONE CASE By Telegraph Fresf •YssociatioD AUCKLAND, August 31. Charges of unlawfully converting a motor-car to his ow use and of being intoxicated while in charge of a motor vehicle were denied by a Maori, George Mia Renata, aged 29. an unemployed labourer, before Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., at the Otahuhu Magistrate’s Court. A third charge of having no driver’s license was admitted. Accused was convicted and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment on the charge of conversion, and two months on the intoxication charge, the terms to be cumulative. Charges of negligent driving, failing to stop after being involved in an accident and failing to report an accident were admitted by George Alfred Carl Whitehead, a hotel porter cf Rotorua.
“You are fortunate you are not charged under the new regulations which came into force next day,” said Mr Hunt, In warning defendant that he would have been liable to a fine up to £5OO. Defendant was fined £lO and 10/- costs on the charge of failing to stop, £2 and 10/- costs on each of the two other charges with the cancellation of his license and disqualification from holding one for 12 months.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20511, 1 September 1936, Page 8
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199MOTOR OFFENCES Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20511, 1 September 1936, Page 8
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