BREACHES OF TRAFFIC REGULATIONS

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 151, 23 March 1938, Page 15

BREACHES OF TRAFFIC REGULATIONS

More Than 50 Cases Heard By Magistrates Gases concerning breaches of traffic regulations heard in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday, numbered more than 50. Mr. J. G. L. Hewitt was on the bench and the police prosecutions were conducted by Sub-Inspector A. D. McLean. On behalf of Lilian Eva Hobbs, charged with parking within 6 feet of a fire plug, counsel said that in 15 years' of driving in and about the city she had never had a previous charge for a'breach of the traffic regulations. The magistrate said that he was not concerned with defendant’s past record. She was fined £1 and costs. For similar offences Hazel Dowling Fleming, Samuel Glazer, Arthur William McGill and Gerald Rosenbaum were each fined 10/- and costs. Carl William Dowling and Henry Martindale were fined £1 and costs for the same offence. a Hume Hudson Longuet was fined 10/and costs for each oij two breaches of the parking regulations, and Betty Hamilton Milne was convicted and ordered to pay costs for a similar offence. For driving without a warrant of fitness for his car, Sydnev George Corneal and Henry Charles Williams were each fined 10/- and costs. James Currie was fined 10/- a,nd coste for a parking offence and a similar amount for not carrying a warrant of fitness. For failing to carry a warrant of'fitness Norman Perrett was ordered to pay costa. James Robert Gear was fined 30/- and costs for failing to drive with due care and attention on Jervois Quay on February 19. f On two charges of speeding in Featherston Street and failing to stop when signalled by a constable, Mervyn William Devine was fined £1 and costs, and for not having a certificate of fitness he was fined 10/- and costs. Norman Alfred Kent was fined 30/and costs for failing to keep as far as. was practicable to the left, and 10/- and costs for not’carrying a warrant of fitness. For having inefficient brakes, Chhoti Khusal and Albert John King were each fined £l* and costs, and for failing to carry a certificate of fitness they were each fined 10/- and costs. A fine of 30/- aud costs was imposed on Edward Francis McKenna for driving without-due care and attention in Featherston Street. Gerard O’Connor was fined £1 and costs for driving an omnibus without due care and attention. ■ For driving in a manner that might have been dangerous, Douglas Martin Small was fined £2 and costs, and was ordered to pay costs for having no licence and for-not carrying a certificate of fitness. James Brackenridge, John William Braddick, and Cecil Alexander Burgess were each fined 10/- and costs for driving at night with insufficient lights. Failure to give way to vehicles approaching from the right cost Frederick Brown and Gordon Clifford Brown 30/and costs each. George Kenneth Purdom and William Ernest Wadley were each fined 10/- and costs for driving without a licence. For driving in a manner that might have been dangerous James Daniel Windsor was fined £2/10/- and costs. Frank Kettlewell was fined 10/- und costs for not carrying a warrant of fitness. David Rockel sleaded not guilty before Mr. J. H. LuxfqriT S.M., to a charge of driving without due care and attention. He was convicted and ordered to bay costs, 16/-, and witnesses’ expenses, 16/-. Stated by the police to have driven along Jervois Quay at 45 miles an hour, Noel Frederick Heron, taxi driver (Mr. F. W. Ongley) was fined 20/-, costs 10/p by Mr. Luxford. For driving with insufficient lights he was convicted and discharged.