COURT REFUSES TO TAKE THE RISK
BEHAVIOUR NOT MENDED LICENCE SUSPENDED (From Our Own Correspondent) HAMILTON, To-day. “I have a recollection many years ago of offering you an opportunity to take out a prohibition order, but you elected not to do so.” Thus spoke Afr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., to-day, when dealing with the case of a miner named Henry John Fox, of Whatawhata, charged with being Intoxicated while in charge of a motor-car. Continuing, he said: “I am going to inflict a fine of £lO, suspend your licence until Alarch 31, and disqualify you from holding a licence for a year after that. lam not going to take the risk of letting you drive about the streets intoxicated to the danger of other people.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 269, 3 February 1928, Page 13
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124COURT REFUSES TO TAKE THE RISK Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 269, 3 February 1928, Page 13
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