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• . ' ? . Intoxicated in Charge of Vaji '
(By Telegraph-
AUCKLAND, July 30. "The matter is 6ne of" such wide notoriety at the present time that men who take drink and drive cars know the great risk they. are taking,? paixl Mr. F. H. Leviep, S.M., in the Police. Court this morning when dealing with William Selwyn Hewson, who pleaded guilty to intoxicafcion while in charge of a motor van. The evidehce showed that defendaut knocked down a man, who was al?o under the influeuce of drink. Hewson was fined £5, and his license was cancelled for fwelve months. Mr. Levien added that about 75 per cent. of the cases of this kind coming 'before himself and the other Magistrates involved the drivers of copxmercial vehicles, and that it would be establishing a preqed.ent if .he dia , no.t c-ancel accused's licenso. *
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 166, 31 July 1937, Page 3
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