TRAFFIC BREACHES

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 208, 27 April 1932, Page 6

TRAFFIC BREACHES

CASES BEFORE ROTORUA MAGISTRATE'S COURT. YESTERDAY'S SITTINGS. Doris Bertha Dungey pleaded guilty to a charge of failing to keep to the left when turning out of Haupapa St, into Fenton St. The police stated 'that a eollision had occurred as a result of defendant's failure to observe the by-law. She was fined- 10s with sim/lar costs. A charge of driving an overladen motor lorry in Fenton St. was preferred against Charles Gudsell, who did not appear. The borough traffie inspector (Mr. D. M. Ford) stated that Gudsell's lorry had weighed 5ton 4cwt, but his licsnse only entitled him to 4£tons. The license he held cost £17 as against £23 for the proper classification. The matter was adjourned for a fortnight to enable defendant to produce his license. James Wilson was fined 10s with 10s costs for riding a motor-cycle over the intersection of Fenton St. at a speed of 25 m.p.h. The traffie inspector stated that the defendant had r'dden along Seddon St. at this speed. No Lights on Cycles. Hugh French and James Black, who pleaded guilty to riding cycles without lights were fined 5s and 10s respectively, with 10s costs in each case5. French stated that he was earning only 24s a week. Two charges, one of riding a motorcycle without the ass,-gned numberplate, and one of riding a motor-cycle without being the holder of a license, were admitted by Phillip McRae. McRae was fined 5 s on the first charge and 10s on the second, with 10s costs in each case. A plea that the defendant was not driving the lorry himself was entered by Mr. R. Potter on behalf of S G. Smith, who was prosecuted for having an overladen lorry on the road. Mr. E. Roe, for the Rotorua County Council, stated that it was a simpie case of overloading. Smith's lorry had been found with a load of 5 tons on the Mamaku Road, which had a iimit of 4i tons. Mr. Potter sa:d that Smith was struggling to make ends meet and to pay off the instalments on his lorry. On the day in question he had asked another man, who was a complete stranger to the district, to drive through from Auckland. The driver had been unaware that there was a ii tons limit over the Mamakus. Smith, himself, was well lcnown in the Rotorua district and had never previously offended. The magistrate imimposed a fine of £1, with 10s costs. Walter Smith admitted a charge of rid ng a cycle in Fenton St. without a light. The defendant, who said th.it he was earning only 15s a week, was fined 2s 6d, with 10s costs. In a Hurry. A plea that he had been in a hurry to deliver orders was entered by Bryant ' W asher, who pleaded guilty to exceeding the speed limit over an nte.section and in the borough. The inspector stated that defendant had lriven a motor-van down Tutanekai St. at a speed of between 25 and 30 m p.h. The defendant was fined £1, with 10s costs. A similar charge was admitted by Alexander Ross- Johnston, who was : also fined £1, with 10s costs. "This is not a bad case. I have had to put th's man up once or twica before, but he has never been much over the weight," said the county inspector (Mr. D-. M. Ford), when outlining the charge against Clarence Dennis, who was charged with overmading on the Taupo-Napier Road. The inspector stated that defendant had been in charge of two lorries, one of wh:ch had weighed lcwt over the road classification limit and the other 6cwt under the limit. He mentionod this in order to show that if the defendant had distributed his load better ' there would have been no trouble. He had been instructed by the Highways Board to proceed with the prosecution. Mr. E. Roe, who appeared for the defendant, stated that the lorries had been carrying posts, a load which it was admittedly hard to estimate. Dennis was fined 10s, with 12s costs.