POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 49, 27 February 1924, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

* (Before Mr. J. \Y. Boynton, _.M.) BY-LAW OFFENCES. J. O.rovatt. who drove past a stationary tramcar at 2o miles an hour — 56 feet per sceond-rwas lined £.1, with expenses 25/. Failure to display sufficient lights on vehicles cost M. Bcazley. A. Connell, A. Messenger. A. S. Parker and 11. Smith 20/ each, plus costs. P. Vulgar was fined 10. , plus 13/ costs, on it similar charge. Harry Stacoy. who failed to show a rear light, was mulcted in lhe sum of 10. costs 11 . Leo Lyons, who rode a bicycle without a light, was lined 10/, with costs II . For parking motor cars within sifeet of lire plugs. B. Kay, A. I. ITindell, It. ■<. Barber and 15. Noakes were each fined 10/. costs 11.. The driver of a motor lorry, named McQuoid. who was conaicted for driving past a stationary tramcar. was fined 20 ', plus costs 21/. For cutting a corner W. Tracy was convicted and ordered to pay costs and expenses ::.. . Kiding a Weveli' on a footpath at Avondale co-r., I". Marslaii.l 20/. S. Whitehead, for a similar oilciice in the Kllerslie police district, was lined 20/, costs II . An abortive attempt to board a moving tramcar near Grafton Uridge, j eosi 11. Allport 31/. The constable who laid the information, staled that Allport had been draggeal along the j ground a considerable distance. For having his ear on the wrong side <>f Queen Street. If. (iillimore was mulcted ill the. sum of 21 ■'. Leaving a motor car unattended .-v.l T. Ooldwatcr 21 . >S. Black. who admitted thai the brakes were defective on a hired lorry which he had driven, wa- lined 20 . plus costs 0 . Disobedience of ? traffic constable's order resulted in A. Uaird being lined 20 . .-. it It ....-t- 11.'.