MOTORISTS ON THE MAT

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 53, 25 May 1927, Page 9

MOTORISTS ON THE MAT

VARIETY OF OFFENCES

FINES AT THE COURT Wednesday morning is not welcomed by those motorists who have been previously informed by an official blue document that their presence is required at the Magistrate’s Court at 10 a.m. Dangerous driving and failure to report an accident cost Harold Byers £ * Is by the time the costs were totalled this morning. James Henry Bradnev was convicted and ordered to pay £1 2s costs for dangerous driving, and Alfred Roy Ellis £1 10s costs, and Robert F. Smith £2 15s, for negligence. Charles A. Bond and Henry R. Bond were each fined 10s. with 19s 6d costs, for pillion-riding, and the same offence left Herbert L. Smith, and his fair passenger, Gertrude Bavister, each one guinea poorer. Speeding cost Daniel J. McGowan £3 9s, and John S. Yates £1 16s. Robert Rogers was fined 10s and costs for riding his bicycle on the footpath, and Henry Stevens £l. with £1 6s costs, for passing a stationary tram.

An unlicensed motor-car brought a 10s fine. with 16s costs, to William R. Andrews, and £1 fine, with similar costs, to Hugh C. Curlett. James S. Hay and Walter J. Jeffrey were involved in charges arising out of neglecting to comply with the regulations regarding re-registration, and using the car without the necessary licence. Hay was let off with £1 fine and 16s costs, while the two offences cost Jeffrey £3 ss. A similar offence cost Edgar K. Bradley £l. 13s.

William James Williams didn’t stop when a constable noticed his lack of lights. Each offence cost him £ 1 16s. Roland W. Waterhouse was let off on payment of costs for having defective brakes.

Allan St. Clair Brown, who was charged at the Magistrate’s Court this morning with dangerous driving and not having a properly assigned number plate, left the court £ 2 8s poorer. Scot Colville, jun.. was fined 10s. with 10s costs for not having a tail-light.