SECOND OFFENCE
A sentence of 14 days’ imprisonment was imposed on Nelson Mons Hedges, a turner, of Temuka, in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Mr H. Morgan, S.M., for his second offence of being intoxicated in charge of a car. His licence was cancelled and he was forbidden to hold another for 12 months. Hedges’ plea that he intended to join the Public Works Department detachment to serve overseas failed to gain any lenience. Hedges was arrested in Stafford Street on Sunday evening and was certified by Dr G. H. Ussher as unfit to drive a car, said Senior-Sergeant D. J. Hewitt, who conducted the case for the police. Senior Sergeant Hewitt added that Hedges had been convicted for a similar offence in November, 1933, when he was fined £l5 and his licence was cancelled for 12 months. An application by Hedges that his name be suppressed in the Dunedin papers was refused.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21553, 16 January 1940, Page 6
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153SECOND OFFENCE Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21553, 16 January 1940, Page 6
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