"FINED TEN SHILLINGS"

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 223, 9 October 1940, Page 5

"FINED TEN SHILLINGS"

MOTORISTS WITHOUT WOFS TREASURY BENEFITS FROM SIXTEEN CASES Despite the publicity given to offences against the Traffic Re- - gul'ations, particularly in revspect to certification of vehicles' standard, each Magistrate's Court sitting in Whakatane sees numerous prosecutions against motorists, and mainly on the charge of not possessing a current warrant of fitness —known as a WOF. Yesterday twentyone prosecutions were conducted by Traffic Inspector J. H, Delves, ''representing the Transport Department, and seventeen of the total dealt with motorists' failure to hold the warrant. Inspector Delves liad the assistance of Inspector A. Carling, County Traffic Inspector. With costs varying between 10s and 21s, a fine of 10s was imposed on the following defendants: — Reuben Taylor, Frank Lindsay Goodacre, Reginald Iv. Carr, Joseph William Webb, Robert John HeGill, William Arbuckle, Maxwell Noel Bright, Anton Robert Wisnewski, Cleveland Savage (failure to produce drivers' licence added ."is and 12s), Douglas James Wood, Alex ander McKay, Harold Tangihia Stowell, Narscr Njaran, Hugh Goodwin, James Harper Jamieson, Henry J.ohn Ryde; Robert Charles Mena.ry (Mr Barry) was ordered to pay costs 12s, • Max Hunt was fined 10s, with 12s costs, for not having a rear vision mirror; Leslie Berg 10s and 12s, parked within six feet of a fire-plug ajid Rangi Kotua, 5s and 17s, rode a bicycle- during the hours of darkness without having affixed to the front thereof the prescribed light.