ONEHUNGA POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 259, 2 November 1925, Page 3

ONEHUNGA POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. J. G. L. Hewitt, S.M.) REHEARD AND DISMISSED. At tlie previous sitting of the Court held a fortnight ago, Thomas Henry Newton was convicted and fined £2 and costs for crossing the intersection of Mt. Smart and Mount Albert Roads, near the Royal Oak, at a speed above tbat _ allowed by tlie Onehunga by-laws, viz., 15 miles per hour. This morning Mr. Marshall White, solicitor, asked for a rehearing of the case as he could produce material evidence to prove that Newton had been wrongly convicted. This was to the effect that an honest mistake had been made by the witnesses for the prosecution. Sergeant J. A. Cruickshank consented to the rehearing and in doing so stated that Newton's bus crossed the intersection as stated, at the same time that another bus did. Newton's bus crossed from Campbell Road and the other one from 7\lt. Smart Road. It was the latter bus that exceeded the speed limit and not Newton's. Mr. Hewitt granted a rehearing, and. after the statement of Sergeant Cruickshank, dismissed the case. MOTOR ACCIDENT. Wallcy Tanner (Mr. M. J. Rogers) admitted that he had failed to report a motor accident which occurred on August 27 at Greenwood's Corner, Manukau Road. He pleaded not guilty to driving a motor vehicle in a, reckless manner at tlie same time and place. Sergeant J. A. Crucksliank, who prosecuted, stated that a boy named Douglas James Lane stepped off a tram car at, Greenwood's Corner on August 27 last and was knocked down by defendant's motor car. The injured hoy (10 years old I scid lie got off tlie front end of the tram car and walked across to the footpath, when the back mudguard of the motor car hit him and knocked him down. John M. Griffin, the motorman. saw the front mudguard knock the boy down. The train had just about stopped and went about 2 feet after the boy got off. No horn was sounded. The motor car was travelling between 20 and 30 miles per hour, a dangerous speed at a regular stop. The defendant; stated that the tram cur had not, stopped. He was doing lo to 12 miles and did not know there was a tram stop there, but thought the tram was slowing down to turn the corner. He was not racing tn get past before the tram stopped and went alvo'.tt two leii'-'ths after strikin_r the boy. This evidence was corroborated by the boy's father. Air. Hewitt said the boy had no rigiiL to leave the train car before it stopped. He was snti-fied tbat Tanner accellerated his speed in order to pass tlie tram car before it stopped. The defendant was convicted and lined £.1 with 3.1/ costs for reckless driving, and .L'l wiih 7/ costs for t'ne first offence. A WANDERING HORSE. George Webb was charged with a breach "of the Mount Roskill by-laws by allowing a horse to wander on the road on .September 27. He was fined 10/ and II costs An application for 10/ langers costs and £1 1/ solicitor's fees was declined. — _____