ROAD COURTESY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 104, 4 May 1937, Page 12

ROAD COURTESY

SCHOOL FOR DRIVERS

YOUNG MAN TO RECEIVE

LESSONS

..Unco' a week for four weeks you ■rtiil'- submit to instruction in driving and road courtesy," said Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today when admitting a young man, Keith Leonard Barrett, to three months' probation on a charge of driving at a speed which might have been dangerous to the public.

Mr. Mosley added that the ordinary •conditions of probation, including that of \ reporting within twenty-four hours to the probation officer, would apply in s^ch cases. The probation officer would airpige suitable times for instruction, aad, would see that the terms of probatifcft were complied with. If not, of-fejndea-s would be brought before the Court under arrest for breach of probation.

' pub-Inspector C. E. Boache, who pitwecuted, said that Barrett had crossed the intersection of Cuba and Miners Streets on Friday evening at a ijpeed estimated at 25 miles an hour. Thie; defendant said that he did not thijik he was travelling at that speed. ise was> trying to catch up a friend's c'aii ■ •■■] ( ANOTHER CASE. .'Ainother young man, Stanley lylafithews, was also charged with d'rrang at Paremata in a manner which migkt have been dangerous. 'Traffic-Inspector A. C. Crawford, 'wljo prosecuted, said that the defendant ,-pulled out and tried to pass two otheir cars on a bend at Paremata. Witntess. who was driving in the opposite direction, had to put on his brak£ and pull almost right off the road toa^did a head-on collision. • Tn^ defendant said that he was following another car around the corner. The.' other car pulled in on the bend andifcft him in the open. <£ui3stioned by the Magistrate regard-ing-ttie probation scheme, the inspector said that the Transport Board was co-opejrating with the Wellington City CoUnejil. ' The, defendant said that he did not have fc. car with which to take the driving lessons of the school for ■ The Magistrate: "Well, would you like your licence cancelled? Defendant: It would help me to save. The Magistrate: The cancellation would, »f course, be accompanied by a fairly sitiff line. There are still too manyiMuman lives sacrificed through carelessness. We have got to do our best to .stop it. ' The defendant was fined £3 and cost* and hi»'.'ltceDce was suspended --until.