MINOR BREACHES

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20986, 13 December 1939, Page 10

MINOR BREACHES

TRAFFIC OFFENDERS HAMILTON BY-LAWS Breaches of Hamilton traffic bylaws were responsible for the appearance of several motorists in the Magistrate’s Court, Hamilton, to-day before Mr S. L. Paterson, S.M. The chief traffic inspector, Mr W. E. Nicholson, was in charge of the prosecutions. The only defended case was that in which Ronald Campbell, of Puketaha, was charged with driving in Victoria Street on October 12 in a manner that might have been dangerous to the public. Mr E. Innes Jones, traffic inspector, said that on October 12 he noticed Campbell’s car proceeding down Victoria Street at a fairly fast speed and overtaking a motor lorry, which was about to turn into Collingwood Street. Campbell entered Collingwood Street abreast of the lorry on his wrong side. In answer to Mr W. J. King, who represented defendant, the traffic inspector said he saw Campbell approaching the intersection, but did not notice him giving any signal. The defendant claimed that he had signalled his intention of turning into Collingwood Street, but that the lorry driver had given no prior signal. Commenting that defendant’s stoiy did not sound as convincing as the traffic inspector’s, the magistrate find Campbell £2, with 10s costs. Speed Limit Exceeded Rex Odgers, of Komakorau, contractor, who pleaded guilty of exceeding the speed limit in a heavy motor vehicle on the main highway at Te Rapa on September 27, was fined £2 and costs. For a breach of the parking by’aw in that he parked his truck :n Lake Road other than parallel to the direction of the roadway. Leonard Bowler was fined 10s and costs. For failing to yield the right of way to a pedestrian on a pedestrian crossing, Henry I. F. Forsman was fined £5