MOTORIST FINED
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND. This Day.
Arrested on warrant at Auckland yesterday, Robert. Lewis Manins pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court to charges of using obscene language at Ashhurst, on the Napier-Palmerston North main highway, to John Hector Ronald Semple, and driving a motor vehicle without due care and attention.
The police said that on Sunday. February 19. Semple, an inspector of highways, was on duty near the Ashhurst racecourse when he saw Manins and another man in a car which passed another car on the incorrect side of the road. Semple followed and saw Manins change places with the driver of the car. The other man gave his name and address, but Manins refused and used obscene language. The other man was subsequently fined, but Manins was not traced until yesterday. He had not been in trouble previously.
Replying to the Magistrate. Manins said that his friend was driving "a bit wild." When he saw the inspector, and knowing that his companion had no driving licence, he changed over. "The inspector accused my friend of having too much to drink. I told him it had nothing to do with him, as I was driving."
The Magistrate. Mr. F. H. Levien: There is no excuse for using such language to an inspector.
Manins was fined £2 for using obscene language arid ordered to pay costs on the second charge
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 53, 31 August 1939, Page 10
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