PAPAKURA COURT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 213, 28 November 1927, Page 13

PAPAKURA COURT

FIGHT ON STATION MANY SPEEDSTERS FINED (From Our Own Correspondent) PAPAKURA, To-day. A fight on the Takanini railway station on November 1 resulted in the participants, John W. Brown and Benedict Pope, being each fined 10s. and costs 12s, by Mr. J. G. L. Hewitt, S.M., in the Papakura Court to-day. Constable Holland deposed that the two men were waiting for a train to the city about 6.40 a.m. Brown walked up to Pope, demanding an apology for something which happened at a dance some evenings before. Pope refused, and they started fighting. There were about 40 people on the ■tation at the time.

A number of motorists were fined for speeding on Great South Road, for speeding on Great South Road: Mrs. A. A. Bennett, whose speed was given as 36 miles an hour, was fined £2, and costs 13s; W. E. Bray, 39 miles. £3, and costs; T. T. Lowe, 35 miles, £2 and costs; Norman Day, 33 miles, £2, and costs £1 16s 4d. Frank Ward, 34 miles, was similarly fined, and the following each £3 and costs; C. Kavanagh, 38 miles; Leslie R. Huntley. 36 miles; M. O. Kidd, 38 miles; G. L. Sandford. 37 miles; R. G. Coutts, 40 miles, and Lloyd Thomas, over 40 miles, each £3, and costs £2 Is. For speeding and pillion-riding, A. Anderson was fined £3, and costs 13s; William H. Bond, Albert E. Stevenson, Joseph Wright, and George Randel, were each fined £1 and costs for driving without a licence. R. Sharpe, who admitted driving without a licence, after being refused one at Pukekohe, was fined £2 and costs.