TRAFFIC OFFENCES

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 21, 20 October 1937, Page 8

TRAFFIC OFFENCES

Big List Dealt With

A long list of minor traffic offences was dealt with by Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, yesterday. For driving without a licence, Stanley Leslie Matthews, Frederick Bert Cayless anij William Thomas Glover were fined 10/- and costs; Margaret O’Connor and Richard Smith were fined 5/- and costs. For parking breaches, Leo-Walton and Janies Lincoln "Wnmes were fined 5/nnd costs; William Charles Burge, Noel Arthur Clouston, -lack Denby, Gilbert William Dodds, Alfred Adamson Dudley, Gordon Ronald Fairbairn, Thomas Fearon, Allan Douglas Hughes and John Henry Mudge were 10/- and costs. Keith Elford Craig was ordered to pay costs for driving an unlicensed motortruck. For affixing other than assigned number plates he was lined £2 and costs. For driving without a licence he was fined 10/- and costs, and for having no warrant of fitness, 5/- and costs. For a breach of the right-hand rule, William Keith Heaphy was fined £1 and costs, and 5/- and costs for.driving without a licence. Lionel Henry Hobbs was fined 10/- and. costs for attempting to pass at an intersection. Philip Lyle Mayo was fined 10/- and costs for failing to give his name and address on demand, and for driving without due care and attention he was fined £1 and costs. For driving with insufficient lights, Charles Joseph Nathan was fined 10/and costs, and James Roderick Stevens and Graham Dawson 5/- and costs. Ernest Claude Perry was fined £1 and costs for driving without due care and attention. For proceeding against a traffic light, Suzanne Bothamley and Vivian Graham Rhind were fined 5/- and costs. For a breach of the right-hand rule Frank Bowry was fined £l/10/- and costs. As a sequel to a collision between a motor-car and a motor-cycle parked alongside the kerb in Hawkestone Street on the night of September 19, Andrew Albert Edward Collins, storeman, Wellington, was charged with driving without due care and attention. Defendant pleaded not guilty. Lengthy evidence was beard, at the conclusion of which the magistrate said he was convinced that defendant could have avoided the motorcycle had he been driving with care. A fine of £2 and costs was inflicted.