INSPECTOR’S MISTAKE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 594, 21 February 1929, Page 7

INSPECTOR’S MISTAKE

SPEEDING CHARGE FAILS (From Our Owk Correspondent) PAPAKURA, Wednesday. ! An alibi was advanced successfully by a motor-cyclist, Mr. Kenderdine, to a charge of speeding, at the Papakura Police Court this morning. Inspector A. Bartels deposed that on January 1 defendant passed through Papakura at 7.4 p.m. at 45 miles an hour past four intersections. Defendant agreed that the number taken was that of his machine. However, he was not riding it. He spent the day at Brown’s Bay, arriving at a picture house there soon after seven in the evening, and playing in the orchestra from eight o’clock onward. The magistrate, Mr. Levien, in dismissing the information, suggested that the inspector should take the very fullest details in every case where a number was noted. Several other speedsters, whose speeds ranged from 32 m.p.h. to 40 m.p.h., were fined £1 10s to £2 and costs. The police proceeded against a motor-cyclist, Herbert Matthews, of Clevedon, for travelling at 50 miles an hour in Great South Road, Papakura, on Saturday evening, February 10. Constable Holland stated in evidence that defendant speeded up and down the town three or four times at a very high rate. He was fined £2 and costs.