INTERESTING CASE
USE OF TRACTOR ON MAIN HIGHWAY. MASTERTON FARMER CONVICTED. In a case stated by counsel, Mr J. Maefarlane Laing, to be of interest to some 300 tractor owners in the Wairarapa, Traffic Inspector W. G. Milne proceeded against John Charles Judd in the Masterton Magistrate’s Court yesterday, for permitting a tractor to be used on a main highway without a licence. The evidence showed that an employee of Mr Judd’s was taking the tractor along a road for a distance of about five chains from one part of the farm to another. ' ‘ The Inspector said his instruction from the Department was to proceed against all motor vehicles using the roads without holding a licence or being insured. After a lengthy discussion in Chambers, Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M., held that the tractor was a motor vehicle and that it was liable for registration. In view of the fact that it was the first case of its kind in the district, Mr Lawry entered a conviction but without imposing penalty or costs.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 March 1939, Page 4
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173INTERESTING CASE Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 March 1939, Page 4
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