Re Robinson - [1955] NZLR 106

Transport — Practice — Negligent Driving — Summons issued out of Court at Taupo for Hearing there — Defendant liring at Lower Hutt — Defendant writing to Court pleading Guilty of Offence and asking for Opportunity to be heard "if consideration should be given to cancellation or suspension of licence" — Court, in Absence of Defendant, convicting and fining Him and Suspending Licence — Magistrate not bound to grant Adjournment — Defendant not deprived of Reasonable Opportunity of being heard in Mitigation of Penalty.