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UNUSUAL CHARGE

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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UNUSUAL CHARGE Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21220, 17 September 1940, Page 3

UNUSUAL CHARGE Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21220, 17 September 1940, Page 3

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