TRAFFIC OFFENCES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 58, 24 March 1937, Page 6

TRAFFIC OFFENCES

Cases Heard in Hastings Traffic prosecutions were in the majority at to-day' s sitting of the Magistrate's Court a_t Hastings. The main charges were of riding cycles without lights and of operating vehicles with inefficient hrakes. Mr J. Miller, iS. M., presided. James Newcombe, for failing to give way to a car approaching from his right at an intersectiofl, was fined £1, costs 10/-. James E. F. Vogel, Upper Hutt, for driving without due car© and attention on th© main Napier Wellington highway, was fined £1, costs 16/-. On a similar charge, Edward Richard Beaumont was fined £2 with costs 17 /-, the Magistrate pointing out that more carei shcmld be taken by drivers approaching intersections in the horough. Un the information of Traffiic Officer David Mann, of the Hastings Borough Council, Rex Pavionr, for operating a motor-vehicle not equipped with efficient brakes, was fined £l, with costs 10/-. Frank McCormick and Frederick Smith, for riding cycles without lights, were fined 15/- each, with costs 10/-, and James Sparks was fined £lj costs 10/-, th© charges being laid by Inspector J. R. H. Semple, of the Transport Department. Maurice Wicken, fof riding a motorcycle without lights, was fined 15/-, costs 12/John Fleming, for operating a motorvehicle with inefficient brakes, was tined £1, costs 10/Jack Kenderdeal, for driving a heavy motor-vehicle on the NapierPalmerston State highway at a speed tn excess of 30 m.D.h., was fined 15/-, josts 10/-.'