MAGISTRATES COURT

Taupo Times, Volume II, Issue 71, 27 May 1953, Page 5

MAGISTRATES COURT

TRAFFIC & FISHING OFFENCES In the Magistrates Court, Taupo, on Friday, May 22nd., Mr W. A. Har'low, S.M., dealt with a varied list ! of cases. Convictions were entered in | those following, with fines and costs 1 as noted. Kenneth Douglas, for operating a logging truck with excessive rear | overhang, was fined £1 10/- and ordjered to pay costs £1. John Martin Bishara, for excess loading of a motor truck, was fined £5, costs £1. R. G. Burnside was charged with having no red reflector, no heavy traffic jlicense, and no registration plate on his trailer, the offences having ocjcurred on January 23rd. last. H:e was ; fined £2, costs £1, on each of the first and third charges, and £20, costs j £1, on the second charge. Harold Ebberley, for having no warrant of fitness and no driver's license, was fined 10/-, costs £1, on each charge. Ivor James Lawson, found to have no drivers license, when riding a motor-cycle with a pillion rider, was fined £2, costs £1. L. E. Reid, for having; insufficient lights on his motor vehicle on March 6th., fined £1, costs £1. Eric Leyland, for carting posts from Taupo to Wanganui, and returning with a load of petrol, in breach of his goods seiwice license, was fined £10. L. G. Sunnex, for exceeding axle weight, and having excessive overhang, was fined an the first count £2, costs £1, and on the second count, £3 and costs £1.

Fishing Cases. Alice Peters, for fishing without a license on January 11th., fined £1, costs £1. Leonard Mason, for failing to produce a fishing license on February 21st., at Tauranga-Taupo, was fined £1 10/-, costs £1. For fishing at the mouth of the Whanganui Stream, Westpm Bay, between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. on the night of February 6th. Edmund Payne and Andrew G. Hill were each fined £2 10/with costs £1. Alexander Arlow, fishing without a license, fin.ed £3, costs £1. John Drummond, similar charge, fined £%, costs £1, aiid for I fishing with more than one hook, fined |£3, costs £1. Jack Hodge, for fish- ! ing with other than an artificial fly in ( a "fly only" area, fined £2, costs £1. j For taking a boat, from which others |were fishing, into a prohibited area, 'John Kidd was fined £2 10/-, costs £1. Three Men in a Boat.

Francis Porter, James William Porter, and Neilson Arnold Williamson, were charged with fishing for trout on Decemher 9th. from a boat not securely ancbored, and with fishing with other than an artificial fly, while the third defendant was also charged with fishing with a bait having more than one hook. The charges arose from tbe faet that the defenddants were alleged to be fishing from i a boat within four hundred yards of the mouth of the Waitahanui River. De fendants did not appear, but had written to the Court. One letter stated that the writer did not intend to contravene the regulations, nor to cause annoyance to other anglers, and thought that if the boat had come within the 400 yard limit it must only have been while turning. Another defendant felt that the ranger's estimate of the distance must be more accurate than his, and he accordingly pleaded guilty, while the third considered that the charges depended on the rangers ability to estimate d^stances visually over water with great accuracy. Defendants wer.e convicted and fined a total of £4 each, with costs of £2 each, on the first two charges, while William son was fined a further £3, with costs £1, on the charge of fishing with more tha^ri one hook.;; Senior Traffic Inspector Muggeridge and Traffic Inspector B. Nash, prosecuted in the traffic cases, and Mr S. A. McNamara, Controller of Wild Life, in the fishing cases.