DRUNKEN MOTORIST
CARPENTER SENT TO GAOL. (By Telegrapn—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, September 5. “This offence is now notorious, and it is my view that the penalty stated in the statute is the expression of public opinion generally of this type of offence. No man is entitled to have one accident, whether slight or otherwise, before he is sent to prison,” said Mr F. H. Levien, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court, when he sentenced Spencer Dyson, aged 64, a carpenter, to seven days’ imprisonment, for being in a state of intoxication while in charge of a motor-car in Wellesley Street yesterday afternoon. The police said that accused drove on against a stop signal. An inspector who stopped him found signs of intoxication, and a doctor twenty minutes later certified that he was under the influence of liquor. “I have a duty to perform, and I am not going to shirk it,” said the magistrate. He ordered cancellation of accused's licence for eighteen months.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 September 1939, Page 2
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