SPEEDSTERS FINED

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 190, 1 November 1927, Page 2

SPEEDSTERS FINED

JOCKEYS WHO DID NOT DR4LE At the Whangarei Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr. F. H. Levien. S.M., James Kirby did not appear to answer to a charge of speeding in Cameron Street. The constable estimated the speed at 30 miles an hour. A fine of £3. with 10s costs, was imposed. George Hansard pleaded guilty to speeding in a taxi when trying to eaten a train at Oakleigh, with two travellers who were anxious to get to Auckland, where a relative lay dying in hospitafi The speed when outside the borougn was 30 miles an hour. Defendant was fined 3*>s, with costs 10s. H. Bayliss was charged as a second offender, with having driven an unlicensed vehicle on the county r° a ,* . The evidence showed that defendant was contracting for the county council which bodv owed him money. He tiaa paid a post-dated cheque for a which was met a fortnight later when the county council payments fell • Defendant was fined £3, with 10s costs. L. W. Waldron, also a count! c<on tractor, was charged with usd g__ heavy vehicle on which the licence not been paid. In this lnstanc s d°u U e nt t y o KSS.-S C °Two Whangarei jog key? were fined for not drilling. A. W. Prc ... charged with failure to notify ms change of address to the military authorities. The penalty was 10s, viu“ 10s COStS. . , Mr ell/) James Owens, another jochej• V ° had originally come fr 0 1" T ® - prawas similarly charged. He had P - viously been convicted for fmhw| render personal service. ca ; d he asked by the Bench, defendant d had no excuse to offer, and was 40s with costs 10s. , The magistrate said if defeatt came before him again on a. count he would inflict the maximum penalty, and would also cons.dei priving" him of his civil rights o term of years.