CAMBRIDGE COURT

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21222, 19 September 1940, Page 5

CAMBRIDGE COURT

MANY TRAFFIC BREACHES FORGETFUL MOTORISTS FINED (Special to Times) CAMBRIDGE, Wednesday. The monthly sitting- of the CauiXJrlclge Magistrate's Court was held today berore Mr W. H. Freeman, S.M. There were no serious criminal cases and the time or the court was taken up with a long- li-sl or breaches of the trainc regulations. Robert James Charles Fell was ciiarg-ed with attempting: to cross the railway line at Cambridge when It was not clear. He pleaded guilty. Constable C. H. Maisey said on August 20 at the Lake Street crossing a train collided with the truck defendant was driving to a goods-shed. At the time or the accident the driver's eyes were dazzled by the sun and he did not hear or see the train, which caught the extreme end or the truck. Neither the truck nor the train was travelling at any great speed. Defendant was convicted and ordered tc pay cos-ts. Airred Wilson and Eric Nathaniel Brodenson were both convicted and lined £2 and costs 15s for drinking during the currency of a prohibition order at Cambridge on August li. Traffic Offences For having no warrants or fitness fine? with costs were Imposed as follows: Allred uwen Belk ids, costs 12s; Peter Smith 10s; Francis Joseph Cassidy *3os; Claude Robert Nickle 10s; D. M. Bourke 10s; Doris Carson 10s; Neho Bush 2us; Leonard John SeFton Line 10s; James Spence ss; John Norman Harris, John Smyth, Robert Arthur Pearce, each 10s. Failing to have a driver’s license cost Richard de Piotrowski, Allen Ernest Walcrort, Claude Robert Nickle, Leonard J 5. Line. Robert Kerchner and Olaf R. Smith each 10s, witli costs in each case, and Leonard Wilson Waugh 12s. Raymond Sheppard was convicted and ordered to pay costs £1 is ror having no reflector or light on his bicycle. The foot-brake or Robert George Morrison’s car was found to be defective and it cost him 10s and costs. Frederick Woofilnder, of Palmerston North, was fined £1 and costs for exceeding the speed limit in Cambridge borougij. William Harry Tuck was convicted and ordered to pay costs £1 2s for having no an unlicensed driver and for using an unlicensed lorry. Robert Kerchner was fined 10s Tor having defective lights on his car. J. D. Wallace Ltd. were lined £1 and costs for driving a truck with no heavytraffic license. James Grinter was fined 10s and cost? on each of the charges of operating an unlicensed motor vehicle and of employing an unlicensed driver. Charles Magnus Jones was fined £2 and costs Tor operating an- unlicensed goods service.