TWO WEEKS’ GAOL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 June 1938, Page 5

TWO WEEKS’ GAOL

SENTENCE FOR INTOXICATED MOTORIST WARNINGS MUST BE HEEDED (By Telegraph —Press Association.) AUCKLAND, June 20. “While cases of intoxicated motorists persist, I want it to be clearly understood that persons convicted on such charges will have to be sent to prison, said Mr C. R. Orr Walker. S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court, when a steel worker, John Frederick Lough, aged 23, appeared in answer to charges of being in charge of a motor-car on June 12 while in a state of intoxication and of failing to carry in the car a warrant of fitness. Accused, who was represented by Mr Selwyn Clarke, pleaded not guilty to the first charge and guilty to the second. Evidence was given by two taxi drivers that a car driven by accused had collided with their cabs shortly after 3 am. on June 12. Their cars were parked at a taxi rank at the top of St Mary’s Road. One taxi was struck on the rear bumper but the second received damage to a door and mudguard. “In the evidence,” said the magistrate, “I have no doubt accused was intoxicated. It is not pleasant for me to send a young man to gaol, but this case has occurred after public warnings have been prominently featured throughout the Dominion. Accused is convicted and sentenced to two weeks’ imprisonment; his driving licence is to be cancelled for two years.” "THE ONLY WAY” TWO OFFENDERS SENTENCED IN AUCKLAND AUCKLAND, June 20. “I confess it is with a certain amount of reluctance that I have come to the conclusion that the only way to deal with these offences is by a term of imprisonment,” said Mr W. R. McKeen, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court at Otahuhu when two' motorists were convicted of being intoxicated while in charge of motor vehicles. An Indian, Manga Ranjee Jaram, aged 28, was sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment and his licence cancelled for 12 months. Herbert William Hill, aged 56, was sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment and his licence withheld for three years.