TRAFFIC OFFENDERS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 32, 2 October 1946, Page 5

TRAFFIC OFFENDERS

LONG COURT LIST

COUNTY AND DEPT. PROSECUTIONS

A long list of cases involving breaches of the traffic rules were brought by Inspector Sharpe (Traffic Dept.) and Inspector 'Carling (County Traffic Inspector) at the sitting of the Magistrate’s Court in Whakatane last Tuesday. Mr E. L. Walton, S.M., was on the bench.

For driving a car in Commerce . 'Street on July 26 with defective lights, Donald Allan Campbell was • Anted £1 and costs 12s. A similar breach cost Sydney Harold Tippett £1 (costs 10s). Defendant explained in a letter that one of his long-range bulbs had failed, and he was waiting till another one could be procured. Peter Lyon Baird, Jun. was fin■ed 10s (costs 12s) for driving a vehicle with a defective tail-light on the same date ,whilst for driving a light truck on August 2, without a current drivers’ license, Hilda R. Wahaponga (Mr Otley) was convicted and ordered to pay costs amounting to 33s 6d. Defendant had had her license renewed on the same date, •Counsel explained. Further prosecutions brought by Inspector Carling involved Kieth-N. Hannah, who was changed with not being the holder of a current drivers’ license. A fine of 5s was inflicted with costs (22s 6d). Two charges, one of driving>an unregistered motor vehicle, and the other of not being the holder of a current drivers’ license were faced by Robert Fisher. The offences took place at Paroa on July 29. Fines of £1 (costs 22s 6d) and 5s (costs 22s 6d) respectively were inflicted. Gerald George Clark, who pos-

sessed no drivers license when stop-

ped by the Inspector aU'Awakaponga . on August 6 was fined 5s (costs 22s 6d). For a similar offence at Whakatane on August 2, David Robert Goodrick paid the same penalty. For driving a car at 54 m.p.h., John Henry Harding, a commercial traveller was fined £3 (costs 22s 6d). A similar breach involving a heavy motor vehicle in the Waiohau Gorge, which the Inspector clocked at 40 - m.p.h.: cost Charles Cruse the sum of £3 (costs 225). The absence of a current W.O.F. for his motor cycle resulted in a fine of 10s (costs 22s 6d) being inflicted on Harold Vincent Taylor. Three charges were preferred against Sydney Wilfred Willets who was stopped by the Inspector driving a tracto’r and trailer at Murupara on August 16.. • Not only did defendant possess no drivers’ license, 'but also, neither vehicle, in his charge was registered. The trailer was unloaded except for a 6-volt battery. , . Defendant explained that in the past he had always kept the tractor and trailer on the farm. He was doing some contracting, however, and had received short notice that the battery for the winch which was on the job was needed. The only method he had of taking it down • the some two miles of road was'by the tractor and trailer. Remarking that it seemed a very large vehicle for a very small load, the Magistrate inflicted fines of 5s (costs 22s 6d) on the drivers’ license charge, and 10s (costs 22s 6d) on .oach of the other .two. - '