A LENIENT VIEW
COLLISION WITH VAN Very contradictory evidence was presented at the Onehunga Police Court this morning in a case wherein William Gray, a Mount Roskill milkman, was charged with having driven a motor-van to the common danger, cutting a corner and driving the vehicle without possessing a licence. It appeared that Gray was driving a heavy van, carrying his wife and six children, to the Onehunga picture theatre, the vehicle also containing a large supply of vendors’ milk. In Queen Street, Onehunga, he turned into Churh Street, when a light Ford car, driven by Frederick Gaunt in the opposite direction became "entangled”, and a collision resulted. The usual monotonous introduction of opposing witnesses, police plans statements taken officially, and various judgments as to speed, and so on, ended in Mr. Poynton deciding that lie could not record any conviction in the first two charges, and as there appeared some slight mitigating circumstances regarding the failure to secure a licence, he simply recorded a conviction and ordered costs to be paid.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 45, 16 May 1927, Page 12
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172A LENIENT VIEW Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 45, 16 May 1927, Page 12
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