TWO DRIVERS GAOLED
INTOXICATED IN CARS MAGISTRATE’S OPINION (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day.. Two men who were intoxicated in charge of cars on Saturday, Robert Herbert Johnston, a hawker, and Kenneth Allan Fitzpatrick, a contractor, were sent to gaol by the magistrate, Mr. F. H. Levien. in the Police Court to-day. Johnston was sentenced to 14 days’ gaol and his license was cancelled for 18 months, and Fitzpatrick was sentenced- to seven days’ gaol and his license was cancelled for 12 months.
After counsel for Fitzpatrick had pointed out that if his client’s license were cancelled he would lose his livelihood, the magistrate said he thought the time had arrived when some provision should be made in the Statute for a license to be .issued with a special endorsement in order that such men would not lose their livelihood. However, at present there was no such provision and the defendant would have to take the penalty.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20124, 19 December 1939, Page 7
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157TWO DRIVERS GAOLED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20124, 19 December 1939, Page 7
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