TRAFFIC OFFENCES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 44, 15 November 1937, Page 6

TRAFFIC OFFENCES

Motorists Appear in Napier Magistrate's Court £1G FINE FOR DRUNKENNESS Admitting that he had had a few stouts at the xaces on Saturday, but claiming that he was not drunk in the ordinaTy sense of the word. Tuta Akenga was fined £.10 and ordered to pay a medical fee of £1 1/when he appeared before Mr J. Miller, S.M-, in the Napier Magistrate's Court this morning on a charge of being drunk in .charge of a car. He was allowed oue month in which to pay the fine. , / v ChaTged with aangerous driving in the vicinity of the ti Tongoio school, Thomas Waddington Graham Tomhlesoh, of Tahaenui, Nuhaka, pleaded guilty and was fined £2, with costs 14/-. Pleading guilty to having driven a motor cycle along the Marine Parade at a speed greater than 30 m.p.h., . Leslie George Grant was fined £2, with costs 10/-. On the information of the Traffic Inspector, A. M. Oliver, Joh'n Stanley Smith was fined 15/- and costs 14/- for backing a truck ont of an alleyway Without due care and attention. . . Harry Bowson, for using a motor vehicle without first receiving the endorsed certificate and licence evidencing a- change' of ownership, was convieted and ordered to pay costs 10/-. Careless driving cost Walter Isaac Hartley Kiikham 15/- and costs 10/-. Bryan Henry Bickerton, taxi proprietor, was convictecL of dangerous driving and fined £1, with costs 10/-. Traffic-Inspector . A. M. Oliver said he had never had eause to complain of Bickerton 's speed before.