FITNESS WARRANTS.
NECESSARY FOR TRAILERS. WARNING TO MOTORISTS. (From Our Own Correspondent.! ' PUKEKOHE, Monday. In the Pukekohe Court" to-dav before Mr. W. H. Freeman, S.M., four* charges I were preferred against Lawrence Keir. IHe was charged with having no driver's {license, having no warrant of fitness for his car. having no warrant of fitness for his trailer, and with using an unlicensed trailer.
After giving formal evidence on the other charges, Mr. N. C. Davenport, traffic inspector, for the Transport Department, said that in this case the Department was not pressing for a penalty in the matter- of having no warrant of fitness' for the trailer. The Department did, however, wish to point out, to motorists, that warrants of fitness were just as necessary for trailers ,as they were for care and other motor vehicles. The present case had been brought mainly as a warning to owners of trailers.
On the first charge the defendant was convicted and discharged, on the second ihe was fined £1 and costs 10/, on the 1 third convicted and discharged, and on [the fourth fined 10/ and costs 10/.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 180, 2 August 1938, Page 7
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