MANNERS ESSENTIAL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20123, 18 December 1939, Page 6

MANNERS ESSENTIAL

•COURTESY ON HIGHWAY YOUNG MAN’S ACTIONS “Good manners and courtesy are more necessary when you arc driving a car on the public highways than anywhere else,” said Mr. A. Coleman. S.M., m the Police Court to-day when Frank John Wilkinson appeared before him and pleaded guilty to a charge of driving a car on the Gis-borne-Minutuke highway on November 23 without showing reasonable consideration for other road users. Wilkinson was convicted and fined ,C2 to pay costs amounting Senior-Sergeant J. F. 11. Mncnan.ara, who prosecuted, said that the defendant, who was aged 19, had borrowed his mother's car and was on the Manutuke highway at 11.15 o'clock or, the night of the offence. When he was near the Bushmere road it was alleged by a Maori, Kawenga, that he passed the native's car at a speed estimated at from 55 to 60 miles per hour. Apparently lie slowed down after turning a corner because lie’ was overtaken bv Kawenga As the latter attempted to pass, Wilkinson pulled out to the centre of the road and ti ied to ,stoo him. That oct*uri’ n d several times, the vehicles racing together on each occasion Finally’ tie Maori driver decided that it was too risky and stayed behind the car.

Asked for an explanation concerning' the discourtesy to which he' had Pieade.l guilty, Wilkinson told Mr. Coleman that he had not slowed down and blocked the complainant, and thought that the charge had referred to the speeding