S.M. COURT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 November 1941, Page 5

S.M. COURT

SITTING IN MASTERTON TRAFFIC AND OTHER OFFENCES. A SMALL' LIST. ■ ..4 Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M.. presided at the fortnightly sitting of the Masterton Magistrate’s Court today. Charged with a breach of the righthand traffic rule at the intersection of Queen and Church streets on November 6, Elsie May King was fined £1 10s and 12s costs. ■

John Phillip Colban was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within two years on a charge of having stolen a bicycle in Carterton on October 24. Horace Corlett was fined £1 and 10s costs on a charge of having driven a motor vehicle in a manner which might have been dangerous to the public on September 28. Traffic Inspector J. McGregor prosecuted in the following cases: * J. O’Brien and Company were fined 10s and 10s costs on a charge of having operated a heavy traffic vehicle without an identification disc. Transport (Wairarapa) Ltd. was charged with having operated a heavy traffic vehicle without an identification disc, and also with having no heavy traffic licence. On the first charge a fine of 10s and 10s costs was imposed and on the second £1 and 10s costs. Mr McGregor emphasised that transport operators must show the heavy identification disc on their windscreen. Civil Business. Judgment for plaintiff by default was given in the following undefended civil cases: Major & Gooding v George Lindsay James, claim £8 7s 9d, costs £1 10s 6d; John Bradbury v Stanley George Suckling, claim £1 ss, costs Bs.