BY-LAW BREAKERS GET SHORT SHIFT

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 101, 20 July 1927, Page 9

BY-LAW BREAKERS GET SHORT SHIFT

TROUBLESOME TAXI-OWNER CHILD ALLOWED TO DRIVE Ambrose Lewis is the owner of eight unlicensed taxis and is persistently stubborn in refusing to obtain licences for the vehicles. He was served with a summons for the seventh time this year, and still failed to appear at court. “He pays no attention to the city by-laws," explained bhe chief traffic inspector, Mr. G. R. Hogan. On each of two charges of owning unlicensed taxis Lewis was fined £5 and costs, and for failing to provide his vehicles with taxi-meters he was relieved of another £5 by Air. F. K. Hunt, S.AI., at the Traffic Court this morning. Six pillion riders trooped out of the court each the poorer by 10s and costs. They were Cyril Green and his brother Athol, Cyril Olsen, Hector Alallett, Hector Heaps and Charles Marriner. Lewis Anderson and A. Stephenson could not find their licences when required by a traffic man. Their neglect proved expensive—£1 each, with costs. VARIETY OF OFFENCES Francis Usher, Percival YVingrove and Henry H. Young were fined 10s each for .leaving their motor-cars unattended, and Clyde Blomfield for a similar offence under different circumstances paid 5s to His Alajesty. Thomas Dunderdale, manager of the Passenger Transport Bus Co., sent one of his buses on the road with a useless hand-brake and a partially effective foot-brake. On each of two charges he was fined £1 and costs, and on a third, £2. Roy Ross offended similarly, and had to pay £1 and costs. Roy Alumby, Charles H. Ward and Daniel AlcLaren left their respective buses on an unauthorised stand and thought the penalty dear at 10s and costs each. Pleading that he would lose his driver’s licence if he failed to do as he was told, L. G. Hunter was fined 10s for driving an unlicensed taxi. Robert B. Long disobeyed a traffic officer—£l and costs. Frederick W. Simmonds deposited 30s—he cut a corner. N. Price Thomas was too indulgent when he permitted James Carson, a-boy of 13, to take the wheel of a car in Mount Eden at a busy time of the morning of Alay 9. Air. Hunt considered the practice dangerous, but convicted and discharged Thomas.