LICENCES CANCELLED

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 260, 30 July 1937, Page 15

LICENCES CANCELLED

Speeding on Hutt Road TRAFFIC PROSECUTIONS Fines of £3 and costs and. the cancellation of their driving licences for three months were imposed by Mr. W. F. Stilwell, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, yesterday on Robert Mead, of Happy Valley Road, and James Fleming, Khandallah, for speeding on the Hutt Road. Mead, who was charged with driving at a speed which might have been dangerous to the public, was stated to have reached 55 miles an hour, and Fleming, charged with exceeding 30 miles an hour, to have reached 50. Herbert Priddle, Island Bay, was fined 30/- and costs for exceeding 30 miles an hour in Adelaide Road, and Edward Abbott Wallace, Matai Road, the same amount for a similar offence in Jervois Quay. Dr. Lyndon Bastings, Rosencath, was fined £2 and costs for exceeding 20 miles an hour through the Mt. Victoria tunnel. Haymond Wright, of Owen Street, who was alleged to have reached 45 miles an hour through the tunnel, was fined £5 and costs. Motorists appearing on charges of failing to give way to pedestrians at authorised crossings were Ormond Connor, George Newson and Frank Thompson. They were convicted and discharged. Harold Morgan, Titahi Bay, was convicted of overloading a passenger vehicle on June 19 and lined £5 and costs. He was also convicted of failing to obtain a heavy traffic licence and ordered to pay costs. Similar charges against James Alexander Hunter, Porirua, as owner of the vehicle, were withdrawn. Obscene language was said to have been used by Reginald Ernest Frederick Miles, Palmerston North, when he was approached by a traffic inspector in Blair Street, on June 6. In a letter to the court defendant pleaded guilty to charges of overloading a motor vehicle and failing to show its unladen weight, but said he had no recollection of using obscene language. “Probably it is bis normal method of expressing himself,” said the magistrate. Defendant was fined £2 and costs, in default seven days’ imprisonment, for using obscene language, £2 and costs for overloading, and £1 and costs on the other charge.