“The ways of the law are difficult to understand,” remarked $ citizen who had watched the proceedings in the Te Awamutu Court last Thursday (states the “Post”). “It fair puzzles me,” he said, as he submitted this little problem. Two men were charged with driving motor vehicles without being the holders of drivers’ licenses,. One of them was concerned in a collision and was fined 20S. The other had driven more carefully, apparently, for he had no mishap to •his, credit, yet he is fined 40s). This discrepancy in the penalties is, at the isame sitting of the Court and at the determination of the same magistrate. “Surely.” concluded the critic, "the unregistered driver who met with an accident should not have been fined only half the amount imposed upon the other unregistered driver who had caused no trouble on the road.”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4955, 24 March 1926, Page 2
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