LOWER HUTT COURT

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 153, 2 December 1938, Page 5

LOWER HUTT COURT

Cases were dealt with in the Lower Hutt Court yesterday by Mr. A. M. Goulding, S.M.

Michael O'Connor, a cyclist, was fined 5s and costs for failing to keep to the left.

William James Trigger was fined 10s and costs for driving without due care and attention.

Sergeant J. W. McHolm said that Trigger was driving in an easterly direction along Railway Avenue. A car was coming out of Victoria Street, and he gave way, but he did not see a bicycle that was following, and a collision occurred.

Failure to give reasonable notice of intention to turn to the right cost Maurice Cowell Johnson £1 and costs.

For driving at Silverstream in a (manner which might have been dangerous to the public, Albert Michael Stopforth was fined 30s and costs. Alexander Cable Dickson was fined £1 and costs for driving his motorcar at such a speed that it could not be brought to a standstill in half the length of clear roadway ahead. For exceeding 30 m.p.h. in the borough Vivian Lawrence, whose speed was 40 m.p.h;, was fined £2 and costs. A similar fine was imposed on John Simpson, who exceeded 25 m.p.h. in a heavy traffic vehicle. Failure to give reasonable notice of his intention to pull out from the kerb cost Claude Woodbury £1 and costs. Charles Burns Slater was convicted and ordered to pay costs for unlawful conversion of a bicycle and £1 and costs for riding a bicycle without a light. Sergeant McHolm said that Slater was stopped riding a bicycle without ag light at 1 o'clock in the morning and he admitted that the bicycle was not his. A great deal of this sort of thing went on. For Slater, Mr. C. R. Barrett said that he had left his bicycle earlier in the day and when he did not see it he thought that the owner of the cycle which he found less than 100 yards away had taken his by mistake. He had previously found a new bicycle and taken it to the police, so he wai an honest type of man.