TRAFFIC REGULATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 215, 11 September 1929, Page 9

TRAFFIC REGULATIONS.

MOTOR-DRIVERS IN COURT. MANY FINED FOR SPEEDING. A large number of motor owners and drivers appeared at the Magistrate's Court to-day before Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M., for alleged breaches of the traffic regulations. The chief traffic inspector for the city, Mr. G. R. Hogan, had 35 cases, including three charges of dangerous driving, and Inspector Taylor, of Waitcmata, had no less than eleven informations laid for speeding. Fines ranging from 10/ and costs to 40/ and costs were imposed for dangerous driving.

People who run motor cycles without silencers may be interested to learn that a man had to pay a 10/ fine and another 10/ costs for that offence. A similar amount was paid for blowing a motor horn unnecessarily while traffic was held up by an inspector. A second charge for this offence was dismissed.

Mr. Terry pleaded guilty on behalf of E. and H. Craig, Ltd., to a charge of having an excessive load on a truck. Hβ explained that for this truck the maximum heavy weight license fee of £75 was paid, but the truck was only permitted to carry 15 tons. On the day in question, the driver unwisely carried more than 15 tons. A fine of* 40/ and costs was imposed.

For aiding and abetting his son, a minor aged 14 years, to drive a motor car, a father was fined 20/ and costs. Counsel for defendant said the boy could drive a car, but the father did' not know he was breaking the regulations in permitting him to do so. The father was sitting alongside the lad when he was driving.

The customary fines of from 10/ to 20/ and costs were imposed for a number of minor breaches of traffic regulations, such as failing to obey signals of traffic officers, leaving vehicles unattended, and not having rear lights.