INTOXICATED DRIVERS
BACKCOUNTRY HARMERS ( Per Press Association. I DUN ED LN, Dec. 19. “It is strange that we should have two cases of this sort. I don’t know whether the rise in wool prices has gone to their heads,” remarked Mr. Bartholomew, S.AL, when two sheep-far-mers, John Alexander Gow and James Arthur Adam, pleaded guilty to being intoxicated while in charge of motorcars. Tn fining each £2O without cancelling their licenses, the magistrate said that clemency was accorded be-
cause, being backblock settlers, license cancellation would impart undue hardship, but his action must not be taken as a precedent.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 300, 20 December 1933, Page 6
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99INTOXICATED DRIVERS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 300, 20 December 1933, Page 6
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