DRINK AND DRIVERS
“In connection with offences of intoxication while in charge of motorvehicles, we have evidence where serious accidents have occurred —and in one case fatalities —that intoxication was the cause and that liquor was procured from licensed hotels after hours,” says the annual report of Inspector C. W. Lopdell, officer in charge of the Hamilton police district, which was tabled in the House of Representatives. "There is strong suspicion that this is so in many cases. I suggest that during closing-hours in hotels there be a total prohibition of Ihe supply of liquor. “I think there should be some legal machinery to control drinking at dances, which, besides being a scandal and destroying the social pastime, is, in its relation to car-driving becoming an increasing danger.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20003, 31 July 1939, Page 7
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128DRINK AND DRIVERS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20003, 31 July 1939, Page 7
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