FINED FOR SPEEDING
Mptorist Travelled At Over 50 M.P.H. in Borough "He was travelling at well over 50 miles an hour in places," declared Mr J. H. R. Semple, Main Hignways Board inspector, when George Kershaw Canty, was charged before.Mr J. Miller, S.M., in the Hastings Magistrate's Court this morning with driving a motor-car at a speed greater than 30 ' miles an hour and also with driving" at a speed which might have been dangerous to the public. Mr C. Duff appeared for the defendant. A plea of guilty was entered on the ftrst charge but on the secohd defendant pleaded not guilty. He was hned £1 on the first count and £2 on the second, with costs 10/- in each case. Mr Semple said that Canty was driving a car from Wellington early in the morning, carrying newspapers, and he travelled for half a mile inside the Hastings boundary at a speed of nearly 50 mdles an hour in places. The defence was that the boundary sign was obscured and Canty was un-' aware that he was within the boundary. . Oharles Neave ' was fined £2, with costs 10/-, for driving a car in a dangerous manner, and James Edward Hope was fined £1 for overloading a lorry. * .
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 110, 26 May 1937, Page 6
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