CHILDREN MUST NOT DRIVE.
WARNING TO MOTORISTS. e> —— PARENT ALSO RESPONSIBLE. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)' WELLINGTON, this day. The Motor Vehicles Act provides that no one under the age of fifteen may be granted a driver's license. By allowing his 13j-year-old son to take the wheel of his car Arthur J. Petherick made himself answerable to a charge of "aiding, assisting, counselling and procuring the commission of an offence, that of allowing a person under the age of fifteen to diive his car." The case was heard in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, but defendant did not appear. Senior Sergeant Butler stated , that the boy could have been charged in the Children's Court with driving , without a 'license, but it had been thought wiser to charge the father with aiding the offence. In this way the publicity which would be given to the offence would serve as a warning to others. "It is necessary to bring home to parents the fact that they must not permit young people to drive," said Mr. Salmon, S.M. He imposed a fine of £1-
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 222, 19 September 1928, Page 7
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178CHILDREN MUST NOT DRIVE. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 222, 19 September 1928, Page 7
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