DRIVER'S OFFENCES
FINES EXCEED PRICE OF CAR
(By Telegraph—Press Association.l
AUCKLAND, This Day.
In the first prosecution brought in Auckland for failure to have a certificate of fitness for a motor vehicle, Richard Thomas Carroll was fined" £1. He was also fined 10s for driving without a licence and £2 for giving a false name and address.
The police said that the defendant, when questioned about 10 p.m. on April 24. gave his name as Robinson. When seen later the same night he was found to have a driver's licence lor 1933-34 in the name of Carroll.
Asked by the Magistrate why he did not have a certificate for the car, the defendant said it was an old car which he had bought for £4, and he did not inquire whether there was a certificate for it. , „„ "How much have I got to pay? asked the defendant wben fined. "You are to pay altogether £5, which is more than the price of the car," replied the Magistrate. .
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 129, 2 June 1937, Page 4
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