THIRTY DAYS IN GAOL
SENTENCE FOR INTOXICATED MOTORIST ( Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH. July 17. ■ Thirty days’ gaol in one case and I a £5O fine in the second were senI tences imposed on tow intoxicated I motorists when they were charged before Mr. E. C. Lewy in the Court toi day. i The two accused were Walter An- ' drew McMillan, a farm manager of Irwell, Leeston. aged 53, who was 'fined £5O and his licence cancelled for I two years. and Thomas Raymond Warren, aged 28, carpenter, who was ’sentenced to thirty days’ hard labour i and his licence cancelled years. Before dealing with the prose-* cutions Sub-Inspector J. Packer pointed out that up to July 17 last year 21 charges of driving while intoxicated had been laid, while so far this year there had been 28, including the two to-day. So far this month five persons had been charged. There were three charges in January, three in April ano five in June.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 167, 18 July 1939, Page 7
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