TRAFFIC BREACHES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 33, 4 October 1946, Page 5

TRAFFIC BREACHES

FURTHER PROSECUTIONS DEPARTMENT’S LIST A lengthy list of prosecutions for traffic offences were brought by the Traffic Department (Inspector Sharpe) in the Whakatane Court last Tuesday before Mr E. L. Walton, S.M. William Alexander McCracken was fined £1 (costs 225) for driving a motor car on August 3 on the Whakatane-Rotorua State Highway without due care and attention. Tui Tekura faced two counts, one of failing to keep to the left side of the road, and the other of being unable to produce a drivers’ license. Fines of £1 (costs 255) and 5s (costs 10s) respectively were inflicted. Possessing no W.O.F. for his veh 7 icle cost James Henry Kinnaird the sum of 10s (12s), whilst Walter Herbert Semmens (Mr Barry) paid a fine of 10s (10s) as the penalty for failing to carry a vehicle authority. He was the holder of a goods service license. For driving after dark with wrongly adjusted headlights, Arthur Mitchell Wray was fined 10s (15s), whilst for carrying 21 passengers in place of the six which his license allowed, Ratanji Dayha, the licensee of a goods service, was fined £3 (costs 225). 1 Inability to produce a drivers’ license cost Robert Woods a fine of 5s (20s), whilst William Maui, charged with a similar breach was convicted and ordered to pay costs amounting to 255. Truck and Trailer * Five charges involving a truck and trailer loaded with timber were preferred against Goodsons Ltd (Mr Barry) of Rotorua. The charges included carrying no vehicle authority; carrying no W.O.F. for the truck; carrying no W.O.F. for the trailer; operating with a trailer not safely secured to the vehicle in front of it; and operating a vehicle with no brakes on the trailer which weighed over two tons, and which was attached to it.

Inspector Sharpe stated that he had stopped the vehicle in Domain Road.

Mr Barry explained that the firm was based in Rotorua, and had -a large number of trucks and drivers on the road. An urgent order to bring a load of timber to Whakatane had had to be fulfilled, and the truck in question had been put on the road with a trailer which had just been constructed, and had not been issued with a W.O.F. With regard to the vehicle authority and certificate of fitness for the truck, these were, actually, in the vehicle at the time it was stopped, but the relieving driver did not know where to look for them. As it happened, they had slipped down behind the seat. The brake on the trailer had been attached, but was not connected. On the question of the trailer not being securely fastened to the vehicle in front of it, this had not been .the case at Rotorua. When the truck had left there the trailer had been properly attached, but the nut must have dropped off during the trip. For carrying no vehicle authority, a fine of £1 with costs (10s) was inflicted. Fines' of 10s and costs amounting respectively to 10s were fixed for each of the W.O.F. charges. The charges of having a trailer insecurely fastened and having no brakes on the trailer were each met with a fine of £1 and costs (10s). ,