CHASE AT HIGH SPEED
AIR FORCE MAN APPREHENDED. OFFENDER FINED AND LICENCE CANCELLED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. An Air Force man who gave a traffic inspector ‘’9o” and refused to stop appeared before Mr Levvey, S.M., today, when an 80-rnile-an-hour chase was described. Kenneth Alexander Finlayson admitted three charges for failing to stop when directed by an inspector. He was fined £2O and costs and his licence was cancelled for two years. For dangerous driving and driving without a licence he was fined £l.
The prosecutor said not only was the speed grossly excessive but Finlayson turned without signalling, cut corners and tried to ride the inspector off the road. He was only stopped by a puncture. The case lasted four miles and the inspector’s siren was going most of the time. The defence was that Finlayson know Inspector Lunn was a good dirt track rider in his pro-inspector .days and decided to “open up.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 October 1939, Page 6
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