INTOXICATED DRIVER
To Retain Licence Because Of Hardship To Firm Dominion Special Service MASTERTON, November 14. Sidney Wilkinson, aged 31, was tniei. £l5. with £l/11/- costs, when he appeared before Mr. Lawry. S.M., in Hie -Magistrates’ Court., Masterfoil, today, on /' charge of being intoxicated while in charge of a ear. Wilkinson was ordered to take out a prohibition order and tut question of cancelling his licence was reserved on condition that he drove no oilier vehicle than his einploi ers . Senior-Sergeant G. A. Doggett said Wilkinson was seen driving in an erratic mariner along Queen Street in the eai J hours of a recent Sunday morning. Mr. R. It. Burridge. who appeared 10l Wilkinson. submitted that hardship would be placed on his employers. Levin and Co., if his licence was caneellcd, because of the acute shortage ot experienced “The time lias passed for allowing a man to. retain his licence merely beennst' his job depends on it,’’ observe! me magistrate. "Iml if it imposes a hardship on someone else tlial would al t r the position." Evidence us to a shortage ot •!• 1 " was given by the head storeman oi 'Wilkinson's employers.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 44, 15 November 1940, Page 3
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192INTOXICATED DRIVER Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 44, 15 November 1940, Page 3
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