DRUNKEN DRIVERS
TWO MEN EACH FIXED £2O. (Per Press Association—Copyright). DUNEDIN, December 19.. “It is strange 'that we should have two cases of thi s sort. I don’t know whether the rise in wool prices has gone to their heads,” .. .remarked Mr «J. R. Bartholomew, S-M.j when, ’two sheep farmers,i John. Alexander Gc-v and James Arthur Adam, pleaded guilty to being intoxicated when in charge of motor cars.. . In fining each £2O, without cancelling their licenses, the’Magistrate said that clemency was accorded them because, being baokblock settlers, the cancellation of the licenses would impose undue hardship, but his action must not be taken as a : precedent.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19331221.2.23
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 21 December 1933, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
106DRUNKEN DRIVERS Hokitika Guardian, 21 December 1933, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in