“TRYING TO SHOW OFF”
DOING IT FOR A BET MOTOR-CYCLISTS FINED “They said they were doing it for a dare or a bet, but it appeared that they were trying to show off,” said the borough traffic inspector, Mr, T. G. Nowell, in the Magistrate’s Court this morning, when Roger Hope was charged before Mr. W. H. Freeman, S.M.. with riding a motor-cycle without due care and attention and Morris
McMillan with aiding and abetting Hope in the commission of an offence. Both defendants were convicted and fined £1 and costs.
Mr. Nowell said that Hope was riding the machine and McMillan was the pillion rider, the latter being seated on the cycle in the opposite direction to which it was going. The two were in military uniform of the motor-cycle corps. The offence was committed on a Saturday afternoon in Gladstone road.
Mr. Freeman: I suppose they have to do this sort of thing in the cycle corps.
Mr. Nowell: They were simply fooling up and down the road.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20081, 30 October 1939, Page 6
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170“TRYING TO SHOW OFF” Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20081, 30 October 1939, Page 6
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