HEAVY FINES

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 91, 8 December 1931, Page 6

HEAVY FINES

BREACHES OF HEAVY TRAFFIC REGULATIONS DEALT WITH MAGISTRATE'S WARNING Fines totalling £56 were inflicted by Mr. S. L. Paterson, S.M., yesterday on defendants who were convicted of various breaches of the heavy traffie regulations. "These men cannot say that they have not had a warning, because I have warned them time and time again and if they persist in these breaches the only thing for me to do is to put them off the road," said the Magistrate. Thomas Goodall was fined £1 with costs on a charge of operating a lorry in excess of the road maximum. The county traffie inspector, Mr D. M. Ford, stated that Goodall was carrying a load of 4 tons 19 cwt on the Atiamuri Road which had a limit of 2 h tons. He also had no heavy traffie license. He had. interviewed the man again last week but he had still not procured a license. Mr. E. Roe, who appeared for the Rotorua County Council, stated that competition by men who refused to take out licenses was unfair to those who paid their fees. The county inspector stated that he had had a lot of trouble with Goodall's employer, J. Pittar, who was charged with permitting a lorry to be used without being the holder of the requisite heavy traffie license. In Pittar's case the Magistrate inflicted a fine of £20 with costs. George Newman was charged on two counts with operating a lorry on a fourth-class road carrying a load in excess of the 41 tons maximum. Newman was also charged with opei-ating a lorry without being the holder of a traffie license of the necessary grade in eonformity with the load carried. The county inspector stated that Newman was carrying a load of 5 tons 16 cwt on the Taupo Road, which had a maximum of 41 tons. His license was also not of the necessary grade. Newman was fined £5 on the first count, and £10 on the second count, with costs. Three charges were preferred against C. Wakelin who paid fines aggregating £19. He was charged with operating a lorry carrying a load of 5 tons 2 cwt on the Taupo Road and with failing to procure the requisite grade of license for his vehicle. The third charge was in relation to a second lorry which the Inspector stated was being operated without the requisite license. Wakelin was fined £3 on the first charge, £7 on the second, and £10 on the third.