HARRIERS' REQUEST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 189, 12 August 1933, Page 13

HARRIERS' REQUEST.

JOURNEY ON LORRY. OWNER AND DRIVER FINED. * (By Telegraph,—Own Correspondent.) PAPAKURA, Friday. An incident on the Great South Road, at Takanini, on June 3, when a traffic inspector, Frederick Jones, stopped a lorry taking a party of harriers to Hamilton, had a further sequel in the Papf'kura Magistrate's Court to-day, when the owner of the lorry, H. Dove, was charged with operating it as a passenger vehicle without a eertiiicate cf fitness, with operating an unlicensed vehicle and with causing wrong number plates to be affixed to the vehicle. The driver, Goddard, was charged with driving an unlicensed vehicle and fixing false number plates.

For the defendants, Mr. Rice explained that Dove was asked by harriers oil June 2 to take them to Hamilton. He replied he had no suitable vehicle and asked them to engage someone else. About 5.30 that evening they came back to him and said they could not get anyone else to take them, and again abkcd him if he would take them through. Rather than disappoint them he agreed. They wanted a lorry with a speedometer, but the only one he had licensed was one without a speedometer working. He had a truck with a speedometer lying idle, and he instructed Goddard to change the plates. Defendant had been fined £3 for operating the lorry without a heavy traffie license. He found himself charged because of his good, nature. The boys were only reimbursing him for the benzine.

Dove was fined '£2 and costs 10/ on each of the first two charges, and ordered to pay 10/ costs on the third. Goddard was fined £1 and costs £1.