FORTNIGHT IN GAOL
INTOXICATED DRIVER , I LICENSE CANCELLED (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. “The court is trying to put a stop to motor drivers adjourning to hotels." said the magistrate, Mr. W. R\ McKean, in the Police Court at Otahuhu to-day, in sentencing Dennis Handley, 1 a butcher, employed at Westfield, to i 14 days’ imprisonment and cancelling his license for 12 mohths for intoxication while in charge of a motor car. j A traffic inspector said that Handley I was driving erratically on Saturday i [afternoon at Wiri. He said he did not know where be was going. Two doctors had certified he was unfit to drive.
Defending counsel said that Handley was a returned soldier. He submitted that no harm had been done and that the case was not a bad one. [
The magistrate: They are all bad
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20087, 6 November 1939, Page 8
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