MOTOR-CYCLIST FINED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 769, 16 September 1929, Page 11

MOTOR-CYCLIST FINED

RODE AT HIGH SPEED PROSECUTIONS AT ONEHUNGA A plea of not guilty was entered by S. ft. August to a charge of dangerous driving, and also of having no silencer on his motor-cycle, heard before Mr. F. H. Levien, S.M., in the Onehunga Police Court this morning. The police said that accused was travelling at between 50 and 60 miles an hour in Queen Street, Onehunga, and had been making a nuisance of himself on the streets. He had previously been convicted and fined, and had been warned frequently. In fining him £3 for speeding and 10s for having no silencer, the magistrate warned him that, if he appeared .again, he would not be allowed to ride a motor-cycle at all. Ivan George Smith, in May last, sold a motor-cycle to Arthur Gibbons who, in turn, sold it to a man named Boyers, using Smith’s name on the transfer. Gibbons’s name did not appear at all in the transaction. Both Smith and Gibbons were charged with failing to register the transfer. The magistrate, remarking that Gibbons had “side-stepped the motor regulations in quite an approved manner,” fined each defendant £1 and costs. M. von Staveren, who admitted failure to signal from a motor-car when turning to the right in Queen Street, Onehunga, was fined £1 and costs. It cost Mary Campbell £1 for driving a car at night without lights. For having defective brakes on his motor-truck, W. Paeku was fined 40s and costs. WOULD NOT ATTEND PARADES The maximum penalty of £5 was Imposed on Walter L. Karlick, who had previously been fined for failing to attend military parades. He had given the excuse that he had been in the country, but. the police stated he had not been out of Onehunga and had treated the prosecution as a joke. In a case brought by the Auckland Harbour Board against William John White for removing sand from a prohibited area on the Manukau foreshore. Mr. F. I. Goodall, who appeared for defendant, admitted the offence. Ho pleaded that the tide had carried the barge inshore and stranded White on the prohibited area from which he took the sand. He was convicted and fined £ 2 and. costs. Thomas J. Carter contributed 30s fine and 10s costs for speeding across a street intersection.