A LONG LIST

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 184, 10 July 1940, Page 5

A LONG LIST

— ♦ — TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT PROSECUTIONS NO SERIOUS OFFENCES Those caught without warrants of fitness for their cars, riding bicycles without lights or red rear reflectors, without drivers' licenses, or without something else, are now going tc find themselves without poc-< kef money for a while as the result of Transport Department i prosecutions in the Police Court yesterday. Though the list brought before Mr E. L. Walton, S.M., was rather lengthy there was nothing of a serious nature disclosed and the fines were not heavy. Clifford Alexander McCracken (Mr Otley) was described as a second offender when lie was charged with parking over a fire plug in the Strand, and he was fined £1 and 12s ?costs. The costs were heavy in the case of Tati Ripalci, and this fact was given consideration by His Worship when he recorded a conviction and ordered the payment of the £1 13s involved. Not having a drivers license was the reason for the prosecution. John Alexander Caulfield drovd a vehicle without first having it properly licensed and 10s, with 10s costs, was the amount recorded against his name. Failure to license his tractor and trailer before taking them on to a highway cost Thomas Davies 10s j and 12s costs for each. ! 'I Forgot All About It." Warrahts of fitness get a lot of people into trouble and five defendants were fined for not possessing the current 'ticket.* John Kerr Rawson, 10s and 14s; Apakutu Rota, 10s and 12s; James Willis Faulds, 10s and lis; Harold Orr, 5s and. 28s and Walter Lewis Challtlen, 10s arid 12s, were the offenders and the last-named was fined a further 10s and 12s costs for driving an licensed vehicle. Five shillings, with costs varying from 10s to 12s in each case, was the fine inflicted on Jack Edward Frethey, Wedgewood McTayish, Tau Apiata and Robert Donald, charged with riding a bicycle' without a light during the hours of darkness. No red rear reflector costs Jamcis Cassiri 12s costs. Last on the list was Apakura Rota charged with driving a light truck insufficiently equipped with lights. "£1 and 17s costs," said the Magistrate. Traffic Inspector J. H. Delves represented the Transport Department in all cases, the only traffic offence brought forward by the police being that of David Robert Goodrick, who pleaded guilty to not possessing a drivers' license. He •was fined 10s with 12s costs.