£50 IN FINES

Hokitika Guardian, 12 February 1931, Page 2

£SO IN FINES

INVALID TRAFFIC LICENSES. CHRISTCHURCH, February 10. “In the past the Court has treated this man with the utmost leniency, but his Iran,snctionK with the local authority have been unsatisfactory in the extreme. 1 don’t know whether or not he has been trying to beat the authority for their just revenue, but I think that is the position.” Mr E. I> Mosley, S.M , expressed this opinion in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. when Leonard Hadfiold, a contractor, was charged with operating three unlicensed motor-lorries and employing the services of an unlicensed driver.

On each of two charges of using unlicensed vehicles, Hadfiold was fined £2O and costs, and on the other -HO and costs. On the* charge of employing an unlicensed driver he was fined 10s and costs

Mr R. J. Loughnan, City Solicitor, said that the defendant was before the Court in December of last year, when lie was told Hnt ho n-nuld he treated leniently if lie naid his license fees, totalling over £IOR imnmdia+olv, Hadfield applied for a licens a in Wnipara. but was refused. Then he made a misleading statement to the Ashburton authority, who granted him licences on the strength of this. These lie°nses cost him considerably less than they would have cost in Christchurch, but it was submit 4 ''"’! that, as the vehicles’ were garaged i" Christchurch the vehicles mm't, be licenced under the lneal controlling anthorpv. H"'!fle l ' 7 . he submitted, had tried to m : sRid the Court by producing invalid licenses.