MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27576, 5 February 1955, Page 8

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

FRIDAY (Before Mr L. N. Ritchie, S.M.) NO DRIVER’S LICENCE Barnett William Younger (Mr N. Hattaway) was fined £2 on a charge of using a motor vehicle without due care and attention, and £2 on a further charge of having no driver s licence, in Waltham road on November 27 1954. Sub-Inspector J. C. Fletcher told the Court that Younger, who was 75 years of age, was driving along Waltham road about 11.50 p.m. when he knocked a cyclist off his bicycle. Younger had told the police that he did not see the did not have a driving , licence because he had failed the eyesight test, and it is a question of whether he could see the cyclist,’ SubInspector Fletcher said. “That to me is more serious than the first charge. Mr Hattaway said that Younger liked to go dancing and had been to a dance on this particular night. His son usually drove him home, but defendant was driving himself home when the accident occurred. There was no question of speed. “This defendant had no right to be on , the road driving alone; he had no licence and could not get one. I agree with the Sub-Inspector, this was the .more serious charge,” said the Magistrate when imposing the fines. TRAFFIC OFFENCES The following persons were prosecuted by the police for breaches ‘ of traffic regulations and penalties were imposed as stated: — Failing\ to give way: John William Eaugham, £2; Kenneth John Fulton, costs only; Whaora Gray, £2; Vivian Turner Starr Parker, £2; Geoffrey John Price, £2; Ivan Frank Stratford, £2; Lois Marie Thodey, £2; Ronald Lindsay Treves, costs only. Using motor vehicle without due care and attention: William Henry Blake, costs only; Gerald Malcolm Cox, £2; Arnold Herbert Fox, £2; Derek Inkson Gillman, £4; Basil Harding Hall, £2; Sidney Edwin Jones, costs only; Nancy Malvins Seay, £l. No warrant of fitness: Cyril Neville Coombe, 10s; Leslie Ralph Judkins, 10s; Robert Ray, 10s. Using unlicensed motor vehicle: Dupree Thomas Coyle, £5 (no warrant of fitness, £1). No driver’s licence: Geoffrey Fox, £1 (no warrant of fitness, 10s): Michael Rodney Christopher McDowell, £l. REMANDED Clifford Charles Zimmerman, a labourer, aged 27, was charged with breaking and entering the counting house of Taylor Brothers, Manawatu, at Palmerston North, on January 19, and committing theft. On the application of Detective-Sergeant A. B. Tate a remand to February 10 was granted.