TRAFFIC OFFENCES

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 96, 20 October 1936, Page 51

TRAFFIC OFFENCES

Offences against the traffic regulations were dealt with in the Magistrate's Court today by Mr. H. P. Lawry, S.M. For leaving his motor-car insecurely parked in. Colombo: Street, James Middleton was fined £i and costs. Pleading guilty to negligent, driving in Featherston Street on September" 9, Tasman George Murfltt was fined £1 and costs. .. > A fine of £3 and costs was imposed on Joseph Percival Bowker for driving in Manners Street in a manner that might have been dangerous on September 19. "'.'.. Pleading guilty to driving a motortruck negligently in Wakefield Street on September 22, George Charles Dudley Payne was fined 30s and costs. For negligently driving a taxi in Courtenay Place on September 27, Godfrey Meryyn Austin was fined 10s and costs. Failure to sound a warning device cost Violet Booth Hutchison 5s and costs. . ■.'■■■■•.. . .. ; William Robertson was fined £1 and costs on one charge of driving without a licence, and 10s and costs on a second charge. Trevor Gilbert Welling was fined £1 and costs, and Kenneth Allan Cometti; James Harris; and John Hayfield were each.fined 10s and costs for a similar offence. . , ■ Driving vehicles with insufficient lights cost Meryl Lesbia Cbgle and Philip John McGowan each 5s and costs, and Arthur John Hyder and Marius Petersen £ 1 and costs. Norman Victor Wotton was fined 5s and costs for committing a breach of the parking regulations. Gerald Bedfield Bradshaw was convicted and ordered to pay costs. A fine of 10s and costs was imposed on Aubrey Schloss. Arthur William Moar was fined 10s and costs for driving without a licence, and was convicted and ordered to pay costs for a breach of the parking regulations. For driving a motor-cycle without, a licence, Raymond Williams was fined £1 and costs, and for having insufficient lights he was fined 10s and costs. . For carrying more than the registered' number of passengers in the bus of which he was driver, George Stewart Cuttle was fined £2 and costs. A fine of £5 and costs was imposed on James Heron for exceeding the licensed load on his truck. Hardy's Transport Co., Ltd., was fined £3 and costs for exceeding the load limit on a classified road. ' .-