40 MILES AN HOUR SPEED LIMIT
Offenders Convicted
The first charges preferred in Wellington 'under the recent regulation fixing the maximum speed of motor vehicles at 40 miles an hour, for the purpose-' of conserving tyres and petrol, crime before Mr. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday.
In convicting the first defendant, the magistrate lemarked: “If lie likes to use up tyres and petrol at 45 miles an hour, he will have to pay for it.”
Three defendants, Leonard Roy William Baker, Arthur Campbell Patterson, and George Alphonsus Dunn, were each fined £3 with costs. A similar charge against Hector Judge, who was convicted on another charge for the same offenee, that of exceeding: the heavy traffic speed limit of 25 miles an hour, was withdrawn at the magistrate’s suggestion. Mr. Stout said he should not be charged twice for the same offence.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 16, 14 October 1942, Page 8
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14540 MILES AN HOUR SPEED LIMIT Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 16, 14 October 1942, Page 8
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