MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 February 1939, Page 6

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

FORTNIGHTLY MASTERTON i SITTING. POLICE AND BY-LAW CASES. Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M., presided at the fortnightly sitting of the Masterton Magistrate's Court, held today. For a breach of his prohibition order, Norman Carswell was fined £3 and 10s costs. The police stated that when Carswell was driving a Railways transport lorry from Wellington to Masterton he had run off the road, and capsized. Beer was found in the cab and also in a suitcase. Defendant had stated that he was bringing the beer to his father-in-law in Carterton. The beer was not included in his waybill. Edward Ahern was fined £1 and 10s costs for'driving a motor-car without proper headlights. Arising out of an accident near Gladstone, when Traffic Inspector W. G. Milne and another man were knocked down and injured, J. A. Bak (Mr C. C. Marsack) was charged with negligent driving. Mr Marsack said Bak had been dazzled and confused by the headlights of one of the stationary cars. He was convicted and fined £3 and 10s costs. Having no driver’s licence cost Leslie ■ Alfred Hay £1 and 10s costs. "The door was held together with a piece of string,” observed Constable. 0 Downs, when referring to a charge of having no warrant of fitness preferred “* s,: against Francis Remine. He was fined £2 and 12s costs. W. J. Butler was fined 10s and 10s costs for riding a bicycle without a light. A fine of 10s and 10s costs was imposed on Jack Brader for riding a bicycle on the footpath. A police constable said that the practice of riding bicycles on the footpath in Essex Street was increasing. For not being the holder of a heavy traffic licence, Thomas O’Connor was convicted and fined £2 and 10s costs. . “The charges have been brought as a warning,” stated Traffic Inspector McGregor, when, the following were charged with exceeding the parking limit in Queen Street: A. H. Tarrant, James Maxwell, T. A. Weston, F. T. Mayo. They were all fined 10s and 10s costs. The Inspector of Factories proceeded • against G. H. Perry and Company for not notifying an accident. Mr G. D. Wilson entered a plea of guilty and said that defendants were unaware of the liability of notifying an accident. They had treated the injured man more generously than required by law. Defendants were ordered to pay Court costs. Community Stores Ltd. were fined 10s and 10s costs for keeping employees on the premises after the required closing tim,e on a Saturday. Mr R. R. Burridge said that the employees were not working, but were merely talking to the manager who had just returned from .holiday.