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SOUNDING OF MOTOR HORN TE AftOHA COURT CASES (Special to Times) TE AROH \. Monday. In the first case or Its Kind to he heard in I" \r ,!):). a motorist. Frederick William Bowers, - r WaLhi, was lined f l and I ■».. costs ill the Te Aroha Magistrate's Court for sounding liis liorn excessively aide! dark. Traffic - Inspector P. F. Morrow said that Bowers began to sound the bom while passing soldiers In Waitoa late one nigh; and continued, to do so until lie was well past them. Defendant, who did not appear, stated In a letter that lie was accompanied by his brother who was a soldier, and lie had sounded his liorn to acknowledge, the presence t.r the soldiers on the road. The Magistrate remarked that rt appeared that Bowers had been showfng-oir. "!i a Hirtii.-r charge or driving •mg-:-ou-Iy, Bowers was lined £2 10s and costs. Shooting Out of Season “In this ease I would ask that the nn< I reasonably severe in order to tv a; . others,” said .Mr J. Dobson, chief range;-
of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society | when laying a charge ol shooting natlv* game out *»r season against Daniel John Curtin. «»r Waitoa. there had been a considerable amount <>r illegal shooting in; the vicinity or the Waitoa River. Walter Richard Ryan, a ranger, gav< -•v. l-nce tint in* caught Curtin with ‘luck on May 2. two days before th< opening of the season. \ tine or £7 ms. with costs 10s and witness fee 11s, was imposed.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21220, 17 September 1940, Page 3
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