CHILD DRIVERS
WARNING TO PARENTS. The Alotor Vehicles Act provides that no one under the age of 15 years may be granted a driver’s license. By allowing his 134-year-old son lo take the wheel of his car, Arthur J. Petherick made himself answerable to a charge of “aiding, assisting, counselling, and procuring the commission of an offence —that of allowing a person under the age of 15 years to drive his ear.” The case was heard in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, but defendant did not appear. Senior-Sergeant Butler stated that the boy could have been charged in the Children’s Court with driving without a license, but it had been thought wiser to charge the father with aiding the offence. In this way the publicity which would be given to the offence would serve as a warning to others. “It is necessary to bring home to parents the fact that they must not permit young people to drive,” said the Afagistrate (Air. J. H. Salmon), who imposed a fine of £l.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3847, 20 September 1928, Page 2
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172CHILD DRIVERS Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3847, 20 September 1928, Page 2
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