ERRING MOTORISTS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 48, 11 August 1939, Page 4

ERRING MOTORISTS

INSPECTOR DELVES BUSY Transport Department, Inspector J. H. Delves again had a fair number of cases against motorists when Mr E. L. Walton S.M. presided over the monthly meeting •of the Whnkatan© "Jp Magistrate's Gotirl on Wednesday. Cyril William Soott, who parked over a fi r cplug on June 23rd was fined 10s and 10s costs; Ralph Frank Rvown drove a motor vehicle whiers d ! d not have » warrant of fitness antl the fine was 10s with costs 10s; GR. Dodunski drove without effective lights at a cost of £1 fine and costs. HEAVY TRAFFIC CASES. T,o"or\ 7 n charged with exceeding the weight limit on a class four road; pleaded guiltv. Inspector D Ives sa : d thf ense had been adjourned to allgw the defendant to make an application to the Main Highways Board for permission to exceed the road classification. The board had declined this. The lorry was one ton three- hundredweights""* oyer the .road classification. t'ni had permission 4 from the Wnzflbtane. Cp.untv Council to exceed the road classification on the county roads t but this, of cou r se, did not supply to highways. Rogantini was spoken of highly by the county. The misunderstanding had arisen over the road which a'ters from third class on the Whakatane sid«* nf To Teko to fourth class on the oth-Jr side. ' Rogantin! was fined £1 with £1 costs. For not having a driving licence; Ivan James Jensen was convicted and ordered to pay 22s costs; Alex: McKay used an unlicensed car and was fined £1 with £1 costs; Romana " A K ; ngi drove in a manner which mighft T have been dangerous to the pubiic and was fined £2 and £1 costs. > COLLISION SEQUELS A sequel to a collision at Matatfi on, June 17 was the charge against Arthur Geo-ge Good rick of failing tq, keep to the left of the road. He was. fined £2 with 10s co«:ts. On a similar charge Maude, C. Roberts was fined £1 and 10s costs. This was not a bad case said the inspector. _ W'lliam James Orr who, at TV Tekp on June 21, operated a heavv> motor vchiclo without a heaw traffic licence waj fined 30s vj'b 2 ; IS costs; Hector Gerald Orr, his son, for driving the lorry without a drivers' licence or a Avar rant of fitness . was convicted and ordered to pay * 24s costs o.n the first charge, and fined 10s and 10s costs on the second. Henry Nelson James Tipp'ng was v* charged with driving without a driver's and driving a vehicle without a warrant of fitness or a licence. He was fined 5s costs, 10?, on > the first charge, 10s and costs 10s on the second and £1 and costs 10s on the third.