MOTORING BREACHES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20112, 5 December 1939, Page 14

MOTORING BREACHES

MAGISTRATE'S COURT GO M.P.H. IN BOROUGH CHASE OF FOUR MILES Tiie longest list of traffic breaches for some weeks was heard yesterday in the Magistrate's Court by Mr. A. Coleman, S.M., two of the cases in the borough involving motorists who drove at a speed in excess of 50 m.p.h. The toll-owing cases were conducted by tiie Transport, Department’s inspector. Mr. R. Metcalfe. A chase of four miles on a dusty road at a speed sometimes reaching 75 m.p.h. was described 'by Mr. Metcalle in connection with a charge of speeding against Walter Dell7.il Barker (Mr. J. G. Nolan), who was convicted and lined £3 and 10s. Mr. Metcalfe said Barker was driving a halflion 1 ruck on the Awnpuni Lagoon road from Matawhoro to Gisborne, and his speed after passing the borough boundary was 60 m.p.h. Il was impossible to stop the defendant until he reached Grey street on account of the clouds of dust disturbed by the truck. Mr. Nolan said that there was no traffic on the road at the time and there, were no intersections until the vehicles approached Grey street. Barker did not realise that he had entered the borough. The offence was not as grave as it would appear on •paper. "1C there had been any intersections on the road he would not have got off with anything like a line ol £3,' said Mr. Coleman. Overloading of Lorry Frederick Duncan Mclntosh and John Brooking, trading as .Mclntosh and Brooking, were convicted and lined £7 oncl costs lOs on a charge of overloading a lorry. !f2 and costs 12s on a similar charge, and £3 and costs 10s on a charge of carrying a load in excess of that for which the road was classified. Mr. Metcalfe said lie stopped the lorry on one occasion on the Wairoa-Gidbornc highway, and it was carrying a tractor. The lorry and road were classified only for a weight of seven tons and the excess on that occasion was three tons. He stopped tiie lorry again later on the Awapuni road and an attempt, had (been made to comply wilh the regulations, but no additional license had been taken out, the excess on that occasion being 4 tons 16ciwt. On the second time the lorry was stopped it was carrying a P.W.D. tractor. -Mr. A. A. Whitehead, who appeared for the defendants, said the second time tiie lorry was stopped it was returning from Wairoa. The driver had been told that the tractor was urgently required in Gisborne. and was carrying it as a favour.

The Gisborne Box Company was fined 10s and costs 16s cm each of two charges, one of failing to paint the unladen weight of the vehicle on tiie side of the lorry, and another of failing to carry a warrant of fitness. Fines for Speeding Leslie Trevor Moore was fined £2 and costs for travelling at a speed of over 25 m.-p.li. when operating a lorry on Harris’ liill road.

Leslie G. Woodward (Mr. K. A. Woodward) was convicted and fined £3 and costs 12s for driving at 50 m.p.h. in the .borough. The borough traffic inspector, Mr T. G. Nowell, prosecuted. He said that the speed of the defendant’s vehicle was checked between Roelbuck and Lyiiton roads by Mr. Metcalfe. Mr. Woodward said his client was an official at a race meeting and was in a hurry to get to the course. He did not’realise that his speed was so great.

In a police prosecution Athol Allan (Mr. Wilfrid C. Kohn) was convicted and ordered to pay costs amounting to 10s for a parking breach in Glad-

stone road. Senior-Sergeant J. F. H. Mactvamara said Allan’s car was parked almost at right- angles to the kerb and had caused trouble for (lie driver of another vehicle. Mr. Kohn said both cars were able to drive out of their parked positions without the necessity of the ,defendant moving his car.