TRAFFIC BREACHES

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 261, 31 July 1937, Page 15

TRAFFIC BREACHES

Upper Hutt Prosecutions Offenders against the traffic laws were dealt with by Mr. H. P. Lawry, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, Upper Hutt, yesterday. Eric Johnston was fined £3 with costs 10/- for driving in a manner .which might have been dangerous to the public. Inspector C. A. J. Peterson said Johnston came round Quinn’s Post bend st 40 miles an hour when there were children about, and went down the straight at 45 to 50 miles an hour. Tasman A. Smith was fined £2 with costs 10/- for exceeding the speed limit in the borough. For a similar offence Allan Broekelsby was fined £1 with costs 12/-. Eldon Charles Cosford, Wellington, was stated by Inspector Peterson, who prosecuted him for exceeding the borough speed limit and driving without a licence, to have been rejected for a licence at Wellington when he applied and told to apply again after he had had more practice. He went past the Upper Hutt post office early on a Sunday morning at 35 to 38 miles an hour, and speeded up to 42 m.p.h. A fine of £3 ith costs 10/- was imposed for speeding, and £1 with costs 10/- for having no licence. Bernard Gough and Eric Williamson were each fined £1 with costs 10/- and 12/- respectively for operating vehicles without a heavy traffic licence. Edgar Herbert Carruthers was fined 10/- with costts 10/- for cycling at night without a light. Albert Henshaw vtas fined 10/- with costs 12/- for cycling at night without a light, ordered to pay costs 10/- for having no rear reflector, and convicted and discharged for having no bell on his cycle. “Nothing on Him.” “My boy could have come here and denied everything and you would have had nothing on him, as the truck is registered in my name. But that’s not my way; I like to be fair and square with everybody,” said an elderly man, Stephen James, against whose son, Richard Henry James, a summons had been issued for operating a truck which had no warrant of fitness. On the magistrate’s advice, Mr. James senior made a voluntary appearance on the charge, the proceedings against his son being struck out. He was fined 10/with costs '7/-. Mr. Lawry said the fine was the lowest he had imposed for that type of offence. He gave James a fortnight to pay.