"STOP! LOOK OUT FOR THE ENGINE "

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 126, 29 May 1915, Page 2

"STOP! LOOK OUT FOR THE ENGINE "

"Stop! Look out for the Engine." So runs_ a notice at all railway crossing*, but it is very seldom heeded. Apparently the railway authorities ha-\e launched upon a campaign tvherebjr motorists and others are likely to be impressed with the nature of the direction Pour cases came before Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., yesterday, where, it was alleged, motor ears had been driven aoross railway crossings at a speed greater than walking pace, and the drivers had failed to stop and look out for tho ongino, as required by the regulations. Phillip Brunswick Copko, who did not nppear, pleaded guilty, through Mr. Blair, to an offence committed at Paekakariki, and he was fined ss, with witness's expenses £1 2s, and court costs 13s. Thomas Theodore Joj r , % who took no notice of the mun waving a flag at Davis-street, was olso fined ss, «Uh costs totalling 375. Fredorlck George Street pleaded guilty to an offence committed on Jorvoiti-quay, when he crossed about 100 yaids in from of an approaching train. As the costs in Ins case were only 7s, ho va* fined J3l. Tor dm ing too rapidly over the crowing; at Petono. within 200 yards of a train, Joseph Theodore Lewiß was fined sj. with 11s costs.