TRAFFIC OFFENCES

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 56, 3 September 1936, Page 4

TRAFFIC OFFENCES

Offences against the traffic regulations were dealt with in' the' Magis* trate's Court today by Mr.'J. H. Luxford, S.M. ' ' ■ ■'

A breach of the right-hand rule at the intersection of Taranaki andBuclde Streets cost Walter' Hopcroft Carter 30s and costs.

Pleading guilty to riding his motorcycle on the Hutt Road on August 2 in a manner that might have been dangerous, Richard Darke was fined Is and costs, and his licence "was cancelled for six month's. John Ernest Gould was fined £1 an,d costs for riding his motor-cycle in Tinakori Boad at an excessive speed; and was convicted and discharged for having no licence.. Passing a tramcar on the right-hand side cost George Larie 10s arid costs. Thomas Jones was fined £3: and costs for negligent driving in Lambton Quay on August 3. - - For driving a 'motor-cycle at excessive speed' along Kent Terrace; Ernest Upton was fined' £1 and costs. For cutting into a line of traffic,; he was' convicted and discharged. ; Charles Weinstein, William Clark; John Harle, Marjorie Lumley, James Edgar Huia Linley, Robert Wainwright, and Winifred Wolland were each fined 10s and costs for a breach of the parking regulations. George" Patrick Costigan and Harold Reginald Harris \yer§ fined 20s and costs. . '; ; , ... ; ; For operating a motor-cycle without a warning device, Henry Wood was fined 5s and costs. He.was fined a similar amount for not having a motorcycle driver's licence. . / :

In connection with the Rugby-foot-ball Test' match, Australia •■ v. New Zealand, at Wellington on Saturday next, tha Railway Department _ draws attention to an advertisement in-this issue of special passenger trains.

Ramsey Wilson, Ltd., • auctioneers, will sell contents of five rooms at their auction mart, 38 Manners Street,; .at 1.30 tomorrow.