INTOXICATED DRIVERS
INVERCARGILL PROSECUTIONS [Per Press Association. ] INVERCARGILL, Nov. 24. Three persons were charged in the Magistrate’s Court to-day with being in a state of intoxication while in charge ot motor-cars. A youth, aged 18 years, concerning whom Mr W. H. Freeman, S.M., said it was a case of a boy being led astray, was fined £5 and his licence suspended for three months.. John Baillie Hamilton, farmer, ot Morton Mains, was fined £2O and prohibited from holding a licence for twelve months. “These cases are becoming far too frequent and you are just a bit fortunate you were not given a term of imprisonment,” remarked the magistrate to accused. The third case in which William Hugh Piercy was charged was dismissed.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 280, 25 November 1937, Page 9
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122INTOXICATED DRIVERS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 280, 25 November 1937, Page 9
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