MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1943, Page 3

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

SITTING IN MASTERTON OFFENDING MOTORISTS FINED. QUEEN STREET PARKING TIME EXCEEDED. The fortnightly sitting of the Masterton Magistrate’s Court was held today, Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M., was on the Bench. Ethne Beryl Todd was fined 10s and 10s costs on a charge of driving a car without having a driver's licence. The Borough traffic inspector, Mr J. McGregor, said the licence was eleven months overdue. Mr R. McKenzie said Miss Todd was a daughter of a retired banker. She was a land girl and had overlooked the fact that her driver’s licence was overdue. When caught by the inspector she had renewed the licence. Mrs Colin Deans was fined 5s and 12s costs on a charge of having parked a motor vehicle for longer than 45 minutes in Queen Street. Mr McGregor said a warning had recently been giyep in the “TimesAge” that the borough by-law regarding parking in Queen Street would be enforced. A car owned by Mrs Deans was parked in Queen Street from 3 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. on May 2G. Mr J. M. Laing said Mrs Deans did not take the local paper and did not see the warning paragraph, following a borough council meeting. Mrs Deans was a prominent worker at the American Red Cross Service Club and was working there at the time of the offence. The by-law regarding parking in Queen Street had been broken by other motorists repeatedly. Mr Lawry pointed out that warning notices were placed along the street. In this case he would impose a nominal fine of 5s and 12s costs. He said that the fines would be increased in the future.

On a similar charge Miss M. Morrison was fined 10s and 12s costs. Mr McGregor said the defendant's excuse was that she was at the pictures.

George E. Pain was fined 10s and 12s costs on a similar charge. Hawea Governor was fined £lO on a charge of having stolen a spotlight' valued at £2, the property of Bruce D. Cameron. Mr Lawry said Governor had a formidable list of previous convictions and deserved to go to gaol but the problem

was what would become of his wife and children. Civil Business. In a judgment summons case Robert Campbell Baikie was ordered to pay Lyttle & Co., Ltd. the sum of £2 4s, in default two days’ imprisonment.