Traffic Offenders Dealt With

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 48, 7 October 1949, Page 5

Traffic Offenders Dealt With

Several traffic offenders were dealt with by Mr E. L. Walton, S.M., in the . Whakatane trate’s Court on Tuesday.

Donald James McGlashen (Mr B. S. Barry) was fined £1 (costs £1 2s) for failing to observe the right hand rule, resulting in a collision. Stewart Black was fined £1 (costs £1 8s) for driving an unregistered motor vehicle and trailer along the Opouriao Valley Road on July 12. Because he failed to give way at an intersection, thus colliding with another vehicle Gordon Wilsdon Howat was fined £1 (costs 19s). On June 18 Robert William Ward drove a motor cycle within the Whakatane Borough at a speed exceding 30 miles per hour. He was fined £2 (costs 10s). He was fined another 5s (costs 12s) for driving without a license.

For failing to keep to the correct side of the road William Whitworth Wheatley was convicted and fined £1 (costs 18s). Percy James Gasson was convicted and fined £2 (costs £2 11s 6d) for exceeding the weight limit on an articulated truck. A fine of £1 (costs £1 2s 6d) was imposed on William Pryor for riding a bicycle at Te Teko without a lamp.