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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 603, 7 August 1933, Page 5

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(Press Assn.—

CALLOUS MOTORIST .SERIOUSLY ADMONISHED BY JUDGE A WARNING TO OTHERS'

-By Telegraph — Copyright).

Auckland, Saturday. "I look upon this case as a serious one," said His Ho'nour in sentencing Noel McColl, of Otorohanga, to six months' hard labour on a charge of negligent driving. "On a dark night driving along a rain-swept road, you struck a boy and left lxim in a dying condition on the road. There was evidence which afforded the jury ample justification for deciding that you drove negligently and in a manner that was dangerous to the public. With the verdict of the jury I am in complete agreeme-nt. "Your behaviour was callous; and you and your wife before you left for Auckland by a ferry agreed upon a plan of deception. I am prepared to believe that you are not a criminal in the strict se.nse, although I note that you have already been convicted of some minor theft." ' His Hono-xxr said tlxat in nxany cases of this kind he had fined the offender, but there were features about this case which seemed to point to the necessity of a more exemplary punishnxent. He would sentence him to six ' months' imprisonm'ent, with hard .labour, and expressed the hope that this case would be a warning to other motor drivers who might be disposed to be careless. "But for the jury's recomixienda- ; tion, the punishjnent I would have imposed would have been greater," said His Honour.