MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Wairarapa Age, 12 March 1927, Page 3

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

MASTERTON SITTING. BREACHES OF BY-LAWS. Mr. S. L. P. Free, S.M., presided at a sitting of the Magistrate’s Court in Masterton yesterday. Jack Himona, on a charge of having driven a motor-cycle at a speed of more than 20 miles an hour, was fined £3 and costs 10s. Clarrie Buckcridgo and Frederick Daniel Milner, for riding bicycles at night without lights, were each fined 10s and costs 10s. Noel Francis Golding, and Charles E. Gibbons, for failure to attend drill, wer© fined 10s and 10s costs, and £1 and 10s costs respectively. J. L. Lock, for whom Mr. J. Macfarlano Laing appeared, for allowing a cow to wander, was convicted and ordered to pay costs 10s. Percy Wilmsh.urst, for allowing a horse to wander, was fined 10s and 10s costs. j D. S. Fergusson was charged with i Paving used a motor lorry without havi ing a heavy motor traffic license. Wili liam Bell, who drove the lorry, was | similarly charged. There was no appearance of either defendant. Bell was fined 20s and 10s costs,, and Ferguson £lO and costs. HEAVY PENALTY FOR SPEEDING. Charles Earl William Levin, who did not appear, was charged that he did drive a motor car on the Tinui-Whaka-taki Road in a manner dangerous to the. public, and with having failed to produce lj.is driver’s license. Walter Heaps said that he was driving a car on the Tinui-Whakataki Road when he saw accused coming towards ‘him at about, he should say, 50 miles an hour. Witness, who had slowed down to about ten miles an hour, accelerated and ran into the bank to avoid a collision. Accused passed on and was driving in an exceedingly reckless manner. Accused had about 9 feet of the road and witness about 3 ft. 6 ins., the road being 13 feet wide. Constable Wilson, of Tinin, gave evidence as to accused not producing his license, and to having measured the road and the wheel tracks. Accused said he had left his license in Web lington.

Levin put in a statement in which h » said that he was driving at about the same speed as the motorist whose car he passed. He did not go back, as the other car appeared to be all right.

Accused was fined £lO and costs £3 14s on the first charge and 20s and costs 10s on the second charge.