MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 248, 30 July 1943, Page 2

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

TRAFFIC CASES DEALT WITH. FAILURE TO GIVE WAY. Offences against the Traffic Regulations were dealt with by Mr 11. Morgan, S.M. in the Ashburton Magistrate’s Court this morning. A fine of £4 was imposed oft William Guildford Todd, a medical practitioner, of Ashburton, for having failed to give way to a vehicle approaching on his. right. As a result there was an accident at the corner of Walker and Havelock Streets on July 1. The police evidence was that the accident took place at sunset, and there w.as snow on the ground, causing a glare very painful to the eyes.

In a statement, defendant, who did not appear, said there was hard-packed snow on the road and he stopped his car as soon as he could. It was almost stationary when a motor-cyclist struck the front of it, travelled on and struck a pole, being thrown to the ground and rendered unconscious. Defendant took the motor-cyclist, Mr William Henry Vaughan, a teacher at the Ashburton ' Technical High School, to the Public Hospital. “Difficult conditions necessitate keeping a sharper look-out,” said the Magistrate, in imposing tho fine. “There are too many collisions at intersections, and at the last Court sitting I said I would have to do something about the licences of offenders. As this offence occurred prior to that, a fine will bo imposed.” I For having driven a motor-lorry without being the holder of a driver’s licence, John Raymond Rydo, a labourer employed by Mid-Canterbury Transport, was fined £1 10s. Police, evidence was that- the information was laid against defendant as tho result of a minor collision with a telephone pole, which-had. snapped two of the wires. Boarded -a Moving Train. Fines of £1 10s each were imposed on William McOsear, a labourer, and Matthew Rnaf, a carpenter, both of Christchurch, for having on June 7 boarded a train which was in motion. Constable W. F. S. Kilpatrick said the offences occurred when the first race train was pulling in at the siding near the Ashburton racecourse.

Again Remanded. “I do not feel disposed to deal with this case until the patient is completely cured,” said the Magistrate, when a single woman, whose name, was suppressed in the meantime, appeared on remand on two charges that being a person suffering from an infectious disease, she committed an act likely to lead to the infection of another person. Senior-Sergeant J. F. Cleary said the charge would probably be proceeded with at the next meeting of the Court.