AIRMAN “OPENED UP”
CHASE BY INSPECTOR 80-MILE-AN-HOUR RUN DEFENDANT FINED £2! f (Per Press Association.) CHR'ISTOHURCH, this day. A Royal New Zealand Air Force man, who gave a traffic inspector “90" and refused to stop, appeared before Mr. E. C. Levvey, S.M., in the Police Court to-day when an 80-mile-an-hour chase was described. Kenneth Alexander Finlayson admitted three charges. For failing to stop when directed by an inspector, he was fined £2O and costs and his license was cancelled for two years. For dangerous driving and driving without a license he was fined £l. The prosecutor said that not only was the speed grossly excessive, but Finlayson turned without signalling, cut corners and tried to ride the inspector off the road. He was only stopped by a puncture. The chase lasted four miles and the inspector’s siren was going niost of the time. The defence was that Finlayson knew that Inspector Lunn was a good dirt track rider in his pre-inspector clays and decided to “open up."
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20068, 14 October 1939, Page 7
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