MOTORING OFFENCES

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 122, 25 May 1937, Page 4

MOTORING OFFENCES

Police prosecutions for motoring offences were dealt with by Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today. Sub-Inspector C. E. Roach prosecuted. For passing a stationary tram, Ronald Hawkesby Adams was fined 20s and costs. Proceeding against traffic lights cost Donald William Butcher 10s and costs'. • Kelvin Huia Clemett was fined 20s and costs for failing to give way to a tram. For being unable to stop in half the clear distance ahead of him, Arthur Fisbee Collins was fined 20s and costs. George Farquhar Dobbs, who was charged with driving without due care and attention, was stated to have knocked down a pedestrian. On defendant's behalf, it was submitted that the pedestrian "had taken a stupid course across the road." Dobbs was fined 10s and costs 20s. Fines of 5s and costs for not having sufficient lights were imposed on John Adlington Fawcett and Neil Westwood Craig. For driving at a speed stated to be 40 miles per hour, in Lower Hutt, Richard H. Uquhart was fined £2 and costs. Bernard Hector Johnston was fined 20s and costs for failing to give way to a tram. Fines of 10s for parking offences were imposed upon Isobel Ormiston Reid, Ida Pichoir Thompson, William Thomas, Francis William Duncan, and Nora Alice Ballinger. For driving a lorry with a load exceeding 30 feet in length (rods 40 feet long), James Hesp was fined 10s and costs. For driving without due care and attention Raymond Keith Phillips and Herbert Duff Tonks were each fined 20s and costs, and Roy Davis Belt was fined £2 and costs. The last defendant, who struck a parked sedan car, the property of Mr. T. P. McCarthy, said that he-was-blinded by the lights of a passing car • ■ -■•-.■•■■•