UNLIGHTED SPRING-CART

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 189, 27 August 1937, Page 12

UNLIGHTED SPRING-CART

Our Own Correspondent.)

Carrier Fined at Waipukurau

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•WAIPUKUEAU, Last Night. A somewhat unusual case camo before Mr J. Miller, S.M., in the Waipukurau M'agistrate 's Court to-day when Arthur Edward Anderson, carrier of Takapau, was prosecuted for driviDg an unlighted spring-cart on tlie main highway about four miles south of Takapau. Coustable Mallan explained that the cart had no lights showing to front and rear and that a car^ having diumied its lights to pass another vehi.de, had collided with it. The car was fitted with a dimming system that put oue of the lights out and, passing the other vehicle, had found itself too close to the cart to avoid the accident. The shafts of the cart had been broken, and the horse had had to be destroyed. The driver of the car had been incapacitated for a month. In these ciruumstances/* and in view of the fact that the defendant was a respeeted resident of Takapau, the constabl'e asked for leniency. Defendant was fined 10/-, and ordered to pay costs amounting to 10/-. A number of other traflic offences were dealt with. Wi Hunter, Takapau, was charged with driving a motor-lorry without having taken out a driver 's licence. Traffic-Inspeetor H. E. Semple stated that/ when he had stopped defendant, he had said he would produce his licence later, explaining that he had been in hospital in Wellington, and that he thought his employer had taken out a licence for him- Subsequently a licence^ bearing a later date, had been produeed. On making further inquiries, the inspector had found that Hunter had been out of the hospital sinee April 14, and had been driving after that date, so he considered there was no excuse. Hunter was fined 10/-, and ordered to pay costs amounting to 15/-. Truck Overloaded. For exceeding his licensed load by 14ewt., James G. Heron, Wellington, was prosecuted by Tralfic-Inspector W. E. Yates, of Dannevirke, who stated that defendant 's truck was license.d in class G to the end of August but, according to the load it Wfls carrying, it should have been licensed in class I. The driver admitted overloading, but stated that that was the only way He could make his trip pay. He had previously been fined £2 10/- in Waipawa for a similar ofience. Commenting that he should have taken out the extra licenset the Magistrate imposed a fine of £2 10/-, with costs 10/-. The driver of the truck, Harold Herbert Heron, was fined £1 10/- and costs 10/- for exceeding the 30 m.p.h. speed liinit. Inspector Yates said he had followed the truck for two miles, and had cheeked its speed at 42 m.p.h. Judgment by Default, Judgment for' plaintiff by default was entered in tlie following civil actions:— Waipawa Hospital Board v. B. Pattison, £45 18/6, costs £1 17/- j H. B. Poppelwell and Co., Ltd. v. Tt. E. Hankey, 15/-, costs 3/-; J. L. Bratliwaite, Ltd. v. G. Anderson, £17 15/9, fcosts £3 8/-; Williams and Kettle, Ltd. v. E. Vincent, £16 5/1, costs £2 15/-; Waipawa Hosp'ital Board v. Logan Tuke £28 7/1, costs £1 17/-; W. H. Manning v. Ike Norman, £1 10/-, costs 10/-; C. L. Carlson v. J. Gordon 10/-, costs £1* Hawke's Bay Farmers' Co-opera- , tive Association, Ltd. v. E. D. Gordon, £4 2/-, costs 11/On judgment summonses, the following orders for payment were made: — Alfred Friis to pay £20 18/6, with solicitor's fees £l 11/6, in default 23 days imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended if debtor pays £2 per month, from September 26; J. TEson £89 11/* with solicitor's fees £2 .2/-, in default three months, warrant to be suspended i (-* - payment is made at the xate of £o per month from September 26; B. Pedersen £1 14/-, in default two days; Bruce McKay £34 4/9, with solicitor's fees £1 11/6, in default. 36 days.