MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 16 January 1931, Page 2

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

THIS MORNING’S PROCEEDINGS

VARIETY OF CHARGES At the Magistrate’s Court this morning before Mr T. E. Maunsell, S.M., Lewis Arthur Duncan was fined £2, costs 13s, for driving a car over the railway line at a crossing half a mile south of Tadmor when the line was not clear.

Sidney Nolen Hogan, for riding a bicycle in Haven road without a light, was fined 10s, costs 10s, on that charge and ss, costs 10s, for not having a rear red reflector.

Alfred Chambers was remanded for a week on a charge of theft of £3 at Wellington. Another charge is pending. James Davey pleaded guilty to casting offensive matter in a public place and was fined £l, costs 10s. Herbert Compton was fined ss, costs 10s, for driving a car without a license. Arthur George Pierson was fined £1 and costs 10s for driving a car without a license. The City Traffic Inspector stated that Pierson boasted he had driven for eighteen months without being caught. For driving his motor cycle without a license Alfred Edward Savage was fined IDs, costs l£s. DISOBEDIENCE OF MAINTENANCE ORDERS Oliver M. Drummond, for disobedience of a maintenance order was convicted and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, warrant to be suspended as long as he pays £2 a week on the order. For a similar offence Norman Newton Biggs was convicted and sentenced to a months’ imprisonment, warrant to be suspended as long as defendant pays £1 10s a week. A conviction for disobedience of a maintenance order was also recorded against Harold Charles Barnett. He was ordered to pay £2 a week, in default two months’ imprisonment. SPEEDING IN COLLINS VALLEY

LICENSE SUSPENDED

Russell Flower was charged with driving a lorry at a speed dangerous to the public in Collins Valley. Mr H. Brodie, who appeared for the Waimea County inspector, stated that defendant, driving a six-wheeled truck, passed two service cars on the narrow road in the Collins Valley. In passing the second service car the truck ran into a fence, pulling out a chain of the fencing, went across the road to the grass and just avoided going into the Collins Valley creek. . The regulations allow a speed of 24 m.p.h. for a truck the size of the one Flower was driving. Evidence was called to. support . the case. The service car drivers considered the speed of the truck dangerous. Other witnesses estimated the speed at up to 35 m.p.h. Defendant was fined £2, costs £5 12s 6d, and his license was suspended for three months.