TRAFFIC BREACHES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 36, 14 July 1939, Page 5

TRAFFIC BREACHES

f INSPECTOR DELVES BUSY I I LONG LIST OF OFFENDERS ig Motoring crime does not pay when ;t Inspector J. 11. Delves is around for a the inspector again had a field day % at tlie Whakata,ne Magistrate's Court on Wednesday when, before Mr E. n L. S. M., he brought many d charges against erring motorists. Sidney Arthur Mahy (Mr Otley) - r pleaded guilty to a charge of neglis ' gent driving in The Strand on May "-29. Inspector Delves said a Mi's Ilayward had complained that she wao '- walking on a pedestrian crossing in r front of the Grand Theatre when she saw the defendant's truck coming towards her. She thought she would be r run down and she jumped towards e the kerbing. The front left-hand side -of the truck grazed her leg. The s truck stopped just over the crossing. Mr Otley said Mahy was travelling » very slowly with his wife and child a as passengers. He saw Mrs Hay ward. - She hesitated and he assumed she wanted him to proceed ,so he w r ent on ' slowly. He stopped on the crossing t and did not know that he touched " Mrs Hayward. He had driven for over 20 years and it was his first breach M of the traffic laws. The fine was £1 with costs 10s. Edward Simpson pleaded guilty to driving a motor lorry at Paroa on May 29 in a manner which might have been dangerous to the public. Simpson was fined £2 with 16s costs. ( Lorenzo Rogantini's application to Lexcccd the allocation for a main I highway was adjourned for a month. NO WARRANT OF FITNESS. Agnes Irwin (Mr Olley) for failure to carry warrants of fitness for a ear land a trailer was fined 10s and 10s costs, and 5s and 10s costs. Archibald Cyril Fleming for permitting a trailer and a, tractor to be used on the main highway on May 24 when not licensed was fined 10s and costs 10s, and 10s and costs 10s. P. F. Lee (Mr Otley) was charged with the use of an unlicensed car on June 2. Mr Otley said defendant was a, missionary on a lecture tour. He went to register the car but was un, able to do so without the car registration papers. These came to' hand the day he was apprehended by the inspector. He was fined 10s costs 10s. Richard Whittle (Mr Barry) pleaded guilty to affixing incorrect motor license plates to a motor bicycle. Inspector Delves said he saw motor bicycle at Edgecumbe with dealer's license plates on it. He learn cd that" it had been purchased from Whittle. Mr Barry said that when the bicycle was sold its correct plates were not t.o be found. Whittle put the dealer's plates on a.s the purchaser wanted the bicycle urgently and lie forgot the matter. Whittle was fined £1 with costs 10s I C. A. Ricketts for failure to carry correct, license plates was convicted and ordered to pay costs, £1. C. Honeycombc (Mr Suckling) timber who on June 2 used a motor car without the current platewas fined 10s and 12s costs. Andrew Harper Jamieson on May 19 at Tc Teko used a vehicle without license plutes. The fine was £1 and costs 12s. Richard Ailhur Wardlaw who on May 9 opeinted a vehicle without a heavy traffic license was fined £1 with costs 12s. Charles Thomas Jones on June 8 Edgecumbe drove a car • without' a .warrant of ■ fitness, ,the, ! fine■' being 10s and the costs 225. Arthur Lawrence Richardson,, bit June 1 at Taneattia failed to carry a warrant of fitness. The fine was 10s and the costs 12s. NO LIGHTS. Jim Fox who on May 29 rode a motor cycle at Whakatane without a light and without a driver's license pleaded guilty to both, charges and was fined £1 costs 10s and 5s costs 10s Clifford Mahy on June 3 at Whakatane drove a truck without lights. The fine was £1 Avith 18s costs. Mahia Huni a who on May 29 operated a truck without the requisite lights pleaded guilty and was fined £1 with costs 15s. Allan Wallace,. Goddard on May 26 at Whakatane drove a motor car during the hours of darkness without lights. The fine was fi'Land the ecsts ;10.s. R. J. Kane who on June 14 rode a jbicycle without a red reflector was, ((Continued at foot of next column)

convicted and ordered to pay 17s costs. George Samuel Whiteside (Mr Barry), who. on June 23 had no red reflector on his bicycle during the hours of darkness was fined 5s with 12s costs. . - , EtmrHimtcr'tefrft S'mil"af' otTfttree pn June 2 was fined 5s and 10s cos*%