TRAFFIC BREACHES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 16, 13 October 1944, Page 5

TRAFFIC BREACHES

SUBSTANTIAL COURT LIST

INSPECTORS' BUSY MONTH The exceptionally long list of traf?fic prosecutions heard before Mr E. X. Walton. S.M. in the Whakafane Court last Tuesday bore ample evidence of the. activities of both the Traffic Department Officer and the County Traffic Inspector. The following cases were dealt with: — Hector Charles Collins,. who ipleaded guilty to driving a lorry on the Opotiki maini highway at a speed exceeding 25 m.p.h. was fined £2 -and costs 12s. Samuel Titua (Mr Suckling) pleaded guilty to driving a heavy motor vehicle in excess of the speed limit. .Fined 30s and 25s costs.

Charles Tebbutt, for failure to have .a current driver's license was lined 5s and 12s costs-

For a similar breach, W. G. Howat (Mir Otley) was 20s and 12s 'Costs. A further oversight of having no warrant of fitness cost the defendant a line of 10s and 10s costs.

Failure to possess a current Warrant of Fitness resulted in the following prosecutions:—Thomas Bell, fined 10s and costs 20s; Bernard Sladden t 10s and 16s; Allan Maitland, 10s and 12s; Leslie Jack Tebbutt 10s.and 14s; Reginald James Orr t 10s. and 12s; Harry N. J. Tipping, 10s and ss; Albert Edward Gadd, 10s Per County Traffic Inspector: J .G. Joyce, 10s and 22s ■6d; J. A. Mitchell 10s and 22s 6d; 'IV. C. Miller, 10s and 22s 6d; John C. Magra s 10s and 22s 6d; Harold .Edward Watkin, 10s and 22s 6d; iWilliam Frederick Hosking, 10s and 22s 6d; Albert C. C. 10s and 22s 6d; Alexander W. Maxwell, 10s and 22s 6d.

Failure to hold a requisite driver's license cost Alexander W. MaxWell a fine of 5s and costs 20s, 6d; Reginald L. Murphy, a fine of 5s and costs 22s 6d; Hilda Francis Mitchell (Mr Otley) a line, of 5s and costs 22s 6d.

For permitting his wife: to drive the taxi owned by him without the necessary taxi-driver's license Sydney D. Yardley was fined" 5s and costs 22s 6d.

Tawera Tiwiki the. owner of a

Stallion found wandering .at large

on the highway at Paroa was lined

20s and costs 25s 6d. Tamata Kai■Tvhata who admitted ownership of

three horses strayißg on the road at

Paroa was fined £3 and costs 255. ' !A. straying mare and foal belonging

to James Ruwiri who was described by the Inspector as an old of-

cost this defendant £2 and -355; 6d costs.