ALL BAD CASES
INTOXICATED DRIVERS GAOL SENTENCE IMPOSED (By Tele?ranh. —Press Association) AUCKLAND, Monday “The court is trying to put a stop to motor drivers adjourning to hotels,” said Mr W. R. McKean in the Police Court, Otahuhu to-day, in sentencing Dennis Handley, a butcher, employed at Westfield, to 14 days’ imprisonment and cancelling his license for twelve months for intoxication in charge of a motor car. A traffic inspector said Handley was driving erratically on Saturday afternoon at Wiri. He said he did not know where he was going. Two doctors certified him unfit to drive. Defending counsel said Handley was a returned soldier. He submitted no harm had been- done, and the case was not a bad one. The magistrate: “They are all bad.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20954, 6 November 1939, Page 6
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126ALL BAD CASES Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20954, 6 November 1939, Page 6
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