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INTOXICATED MOTORIST CANCELLATION OF LICENCE AND SEVEN DAYS’ GAOL [ Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, Dec. 5. "Apparently it does not matter what penalty is imposed as it is not having the effect expected,” remarked Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M., in the Otahuhu Police Court, when Thomas Charles Peek, aged 37, commercial traveller, admitted being found intoxicated while in charge of a motorcar. Counsel said that accused had called at his club in town and met a friend who was also with a motor-car in the city. Accused had stayed with him and persuaded him not to drive in view of his condition. The effect of having no lunch and a few drinks had upset the accused, who was driving slowly toward Otahuhu where he intended to get a meal, when he was accosted. Accused was married with two children, who would suffer through any penalty imposed. The magistrate said that he did not doubt counsel's statement that accused bore a good character, but he had taken no heed of the many warnings issued by the Court. "I cannot make distinctions," he added, in imposing a sentence of seven days’ imprisonment and cancellation of accused’s licence for six months. “I have cancelled it for that period on the assumption that accused will have to pay someone to drive his car."
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 82, Issue 288, 6 December 1938, Page 8
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