DRUNKEON MOTORISTS
On Monday an Auckland magistrate in fining a drunken motorist £3O and cancelling his license for twelve months said that if substantial fines failed to prevent such offences offenders would have to be sent to prison. On the same day a. magistrate in Christchurch went n step further; he said lie was tired of imposing fines, and sent an offender to gaol for three weeks. r l here has been much comment on the variations in punishment inflicted lor this offence, and it lias been felt that on the whole penalties have been too light. The motorist who has lost control of himself is as great a danger on the road as a mad dog would he. He may at any moment involve lialf-n-doz-on pennle in a grave accident, and oven the pedestrian under the supposed protection of the footpath is not safe. If magistrates agreed, that as a matter of practice in bad cases offenders should 1m sent to gaol, without the option, they would not bo going too far in the protection of society.—Auckland Star.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 November 1929, Page 8
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179DRUNKE0N MOTORISTS Hokitika Guardian, 16 November 1929, Page 8
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