MOTORISTS FINED.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 266, 22 August 1936, Page 2

MOTORISTS FINED.

MAN INTOXICATED IN CAR. (Per Press Association.) NELSON, August 21. Mr T. E. Maunsel, S.M., to-day gave a reserved judgment in a case in which Ross Newman was charged that while in a state of intoxication, he was in charge of a motor vehicle on the Nel-son-Stoke main highway. In convicting defendant and fining him £SO, and cancelling his license during the current term, the Magistrate said that the time was not far off when he would have to impose a term of imprisonment in such cases. PENALTY FOR SPEEDING. (Per 1 ess Association.) DUNEDIN, August 21. If one may judge by the fines imposed to-day by Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M., in the‘City Police Court, motorists convicted of speeding are in future to bo penalised in a manner that will remind them to step less heavily on the accelerator. Three prosecutions for driving on the main north and south roads at speeds varying between 40 and 50 miles an hour, were brought to-day by the Main Highway Board’s traffic inspectors, and offenders were respectively fined £lO, £6 and £5.