LIGHT TRAFFIC COURT.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20273, 16 August 1937, Page 8

LIGHT TRAFFIC COURT.

COLLISION AFTER DANCE. RUNAWAY CYCLIST FINED. A light list of traffic offences was again dealt with by Mr S. L. Paterson. S.M., in the Magistrate's Court. Hamilton, to-day. Five charges were brought, by the police. Senior-Sergeant G. 11. Lambert prosecuting. B. G. Ferguson Mr ||. j. McMul lin efiarged with negligent driving and being in charge of a car without « license was convicted mi both charges and lined £1 and costs on Hie first mentioned and Ins and costs mi the second. The offences were committed following a dance attended ! y defendant, said the senior-sergeant, when dcl'-nd inl had driven a fr end’s three-seator car, containing five people, on the wrong side along Hood Street! He had collided with a taxi travelling on its correct side. Tried to Evade Pollco. K. M. Andrews, for carelessly riding a bicycle In Victoria Street, and bonding a bieycle at night without h light, was convicted and fined ids ami costs on each charge. In evidence it was staled that defendant had been riding without h:s hands on the handle-bars, and that vtien called mi to stop by a cmistali., had speeded up aHcr looking . eli.nd him. Defendant denied that lie ha ! h -.i the cousin' h* call oil him lo stop. To Ihe magistrate, tie said lie had t.-c icrated because tie wMn-d lo get homo, as d was begimrng to rain. His ' g|,t Pad been oil bill lie had SW defied it off when lie lint d -mount, d In ■!„- dene* of l tlo* constable and tho taxidriver who had pursued defendant Had defendant not speeded lit- and | ,1; «ve I imposed. Charge of negligently driving's liirht van on ttie HimiJhm Kureki Root mi July and was tilled V2 and c.iMs and his license was end e— d. Two charges were ]i\ In. special* G. G. Winter \\ aikal . (: . : Ify vie led and Fund 1 :»*. and cost, f" r being in charge of .. undo,- vehicle ; without a driver's license., and K. G, costs for overloading a motor-truck.