FINES AND PENALTIES

Chronicle (Levin), 6 October 1947, Page 4

FINES AND PENALTIES

TRAFFIG bkeaches dealt WITH .Two railway crossing offences had a sequel in the Magistrate's Court, Levin on Friday.. For- crossing the railway line when it was not elear, Horaee Wilfred- Hume Clifton was convicted and fined £5, with I2s costs. For driving a motor vehicle without a licenee- he was fined 30s, with 10s costs. Jack Lewis Jones was fined £4, with 12s. costs, fojr crossing the railway when the line- was not clear. Pleading guilty to having: an excess overhang on a motor vehicl'e,. Cecil Edgar Cooksley was convicted and fined £2 with 10s costs. It was stated by Traffic Inspeetor M. Kehoe that he had stopped the truck- irn Queen Street, Levin, and that it had been l'oaded With timher with an overhang of nine feet. He had put his weight on the back and almost lifted' the.front wheels of' the vehicle- off the ground. For defendant, Mr. J. Todd submitted that the truck had travelled by back streets and had only gone through the main road when absolutely necessary. * Claud Hamilton Speirs was fined £4, with 10s costs, for driving a truck with no. heavy traffic licence. Inspeetor Kehoe said that he had warned Speirs three times and told him to licence the truck. In his own defence, Speirs siibmitted that the truck was. rarely used on the roads. Its main use was carrying produce around the farm. It had on. one oecasion taken a load of wo'ol to Wellington. D. H. Murray was convicted and fined £1, with costs amounting to £1 11s, for allowing stock to wander on the road.