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CAR DRIVEN WITHOUT DUE CARE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, December 8. The extreme step of cancelling a man’s driving licence for the offence of operating a motor-vehicle without due care was taken in the Magistrates’ Court, Stratford, today by Mr W. H. Woodward, S.M., when he disqualified W. R. Mason, farmer, Kahouri Road. Ngaere, from holding a licence for a month, and fined him the maximum penalty of £4. It was the first time that a licence had been cancelled for such an offence in Taranaki. The case was described by Sergeant Anniss as very serious. He said that just after 5 p.m. on November 18 a Post and Telegraph Department lorry was returning to Stratford through excavation works when the driver saw a car approaching him at an excessive speed. He put the lorry right up against the bank to avoid a collision but Mason’s car did not slacken speed and hit the side of the lorry, careered on foi' 150 feet and overturned. The speed of Mason’s car was estimated to be 45 miles an hour.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 December 1938, Page 7
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181LICENCE CANCELLED Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 December 1938, Page 7
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