DRUNKEN MOTORISTS.
LAST FINE IMPOSED. GAOL THE NEXT TIME. “A motor-car is a dangerous thing when it is not under proper control. The fines imposed on drunken motorists have some time ago reached the maximum, but even £10(1 fines do not seem to have any effect. It will soon be. a question of imprisonment for drunken motorists,” said Mr J. W. Boynton, S.M., at the Auckland Police Court yesterday morning, when “a professional man” wag. fined £5O for being in a state of intoxication while in charge of a motor-car in Symonds Street. After he had imposed the tine the. Magistrate added : “This will be the last fine. Something else will have to be done in future.”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4985, 9 June 1926, Page 2
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117DRUNKEN MOTORISTS. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4985, 9 June 1926, Page 2
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