OVERWEIGHT LORRIES.
FINES INFLICTED. County Council Prosecutions. The Matamata County Council proceeded against two lorry owners at the Putaruru Magistrate’s Court, before Mr. S. L. Paterson, S.M., on Thursday, for operating overweight lorries on a fifth-class road, to wit, the Putaruru-Taupo road. The first case called was that against Alexander Conrad. The county inspector, Mr. E. W. Jordan, stated that he caught the defendant driving a motor lorry carrying posts, the combined weight of which was three tons five hundredweight. The classification of the road only allowed the weight to be 2i tons. A conviction and fine of £4 and costs was entered. A Woman Fined. Mabel Elliot was charged with a similar offence, the lorry in this case with its load of posts weighting 2 tons 192 hundredweight. The defendant was fined £3 and costs.
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Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 317, 5 December 1929, Page 3
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136OVERWEIGHT LORRIES. Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 317, 5 December 1929, Page 3
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