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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 699, 26 June 1929, Page 13

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LORRY OWNER HEAVILY FINED NO HEAVY TRAFFIC LICENCE (From Our Otcrt Correspondent) PAPAKURA, Today. Breaches of traffic laws cost a lorry owner, John Sheppard, of Paparimu, over £4O in the Papakura Police Court today. Sheppard was charged with operating a lorry without a heavy traffic licence, and also with using an expired identification disc. Messrs. J. Beams and D. McLennan, J.P.’s, presided. The traffic inspector for the Highways Board. Mr. Ernest H. Barrett, said that despite a fine of £ 5 in 1527 for operating without a heavy traffic licence, defendant continued without a licence, evading £52 in fees in two years. The identification disc on the lorry related to the year 1925. The bench, in imposing a fine of £2O on each of the two charges, said strong action was needed to bring such a defaulting lorry owner to a realisation of his obligations. George McGrath was fined £5 and costs 10s for his failure to supply the traffic inspector of the Papakura Town Board, Henry G. Bartels, with information as to who was driving his car when the number was taken for speeding through Papakura. The inspector stated that two notices were ignored by the defendant, and a registered letter was then sent and signed for by defendant. There was still no reply. The case was brought to impress on motorists that they must reply to such notices.

Speeding at Papakura cost the following each £2 and costs: C. W. Simpson, 37 miles; B. C. Taylor, 37 miles: YV. J. Pirie, 34 miles; F. Fallas, 34 miles; H. G. Hebden, 34 miles; J. Mills, 34 miles. In the case against J. ITedley, Inspector Bartels and his assistant said that defendant travelled at 37 miles an hour through the trap on the Great South Road on the morning of May 11, when a stream of traffic was passing through Papakura, en route to the races at Pukekohe.

Defendant and a passenger said they noticed the inspector and assistant, and took particular note of their speedometer, which showed 33 miles an hour. The speedometer was afterwards checked and found to be correct. Defendant was fined £ 1 and costs.