LICENSE SUSPENDED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 33, 8 February 1930, Page 12

LICENSE SUSPENDED.

Mrs. A. P. F. Chapman Pined for Dangerous Driving. BLAMED A MONUMENT. (Received 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, February 7. Several cricketers appeared at the Marlborough Police Court when Mrs. A. P. F. Chapman, wife of the Test captain and sister of Mr. T. C. Lowry, the NewZealand cricketer, was summoned for dangerous driving. Mr. M. D. Lyon, the Somerset batsman, appeared for the accused. A policeman gave evidence that defendant drove down Langham Place at a speed of 15 to 20 miles per 1 hour. She did not slacken speed and • collided with a car at a crossing. When * she was told she would be summoned she i said: "I suppose it will be a liver. 1 am a stranger in London and am not used to driving here." Cross-examined witness would nut admit the speed was only eight miles per hour. Defendant, giving evidence, said she was driving her husband and a friend. She did not see the policeman owing to a monument. She then jammed on the brakes immediately. The magistrate suggested that she ought to have gone slower but defendant replied: "If I had gone quicker I would have got through." Air. Chapman, giving evidence, estimated the speed at ten miles per hour. He narrated that when he told the policeman his name he asked "A.P.F. ?" Witness replied in the affirmative. The policeman then said: "That makes the case worse. You ought to plead the monument as an excuse, it has caused a lot of trouble." Witness added that he had since visited the spot and it was impossible to seo a policeman at night time owing to the monument. The magistrate expressed the opinion that the presence of the monument only necessitated greater caution and fined defendant £7 with £3 costs. The license was also suspended for six weeks. EXPLORATION WORK. Mawson's Observations in Antarctic. POVERTY OF PLANT LIPE. (All Kights Reserved.) (Received 2.30 p.m.) CANBERRA, this day. Lengthy dispatches fro mthe Discovery detail the results of exploratory work to date. Meteorological observation's have shown that the upper air movement is generally roughly northwest. To the south-east of Enderby. Land gales are easterly, and the northern point of Enderby Land is almost clear of the pack ice in summer, but in winter the pack is pressed against the shore by westerly winds. The conditions are evidently similar to those prevailing upwards of a century ago, when Kemp and Biscoe visited the region. Further east, however, between MacRobertson Land and Gaussberg, the pack is heavily congested. Extensive oceanographic work lias disclosed the character and limits of the continental shelf fringing the Antarctic lands, and also the depths and irregularities of the ocean floor. * V;.- i l- .. ■* Other investigations reveal the special poverty of land < plant life, also green algae (a type of seaweed) in the region from Enderby Land to the Ross Sea. Whales are exceptionally plentiful.