POLICE COURT

Evening Star, Issue 25948, 13 November 1946, Page 4

POLICE COURT

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13. (Before Mr J. D. Willis,' S.M.) MOTORING~OFFENCES. As the result of a collision between a motor car and a horse-drawn milk float in Cumberland street on September 29, Leonard Huxley Johnson (Mr W. H. Carson), the driver of the car, was charged with negligent driving. Ho pleaded guilty and was fined £3 and costs'. Three charges were preferred against Stephen Barney Cuthbert McAnnally, two of failure to obtain a warrant of fitness, having defective foot brakes, and committing a breach of the off-side rule. He lpeaded guilty, and was fined 10s, £2, and £1 on the respective charges, with costs in each case. For failing to obtain current warrants of fitness, Gabriel Wood \yatson and Johnston Gordon Myers were each fined £1 and costs. Having been involved in a collision with a cyclist, David Hunter Stevenson, driver of a motor car, was fined 30s and costs on a charge of driving yithout due care and attention. On a similar charge, Arthur Frederick Thomas Munro (Mr J. G. Warrington), whose car had collided with a tram at the foot of High street, was also fined 10s and costs. For committing the offence of parking their cars over fireplugs, Robert John Raymond Geary, Reginald Thomas Sands, and James Lockie Weipers were each fined 10s and costs. Pleading guilty to a charge of driving without due care and attention in Anderson’s Bay road on September 23, the/result of which was a collision between defendant’s car and a tram car, William Clark (Mr Carron) w r as fined 10s and costs. Similarly charged, William Albert Edmonds (Mr W. McElevey), who had backed his car into a tram car while leaving a parking place, was also fined 10s and costs. For failing to. stop his car at the signal of a constable, Ainsley Clarence Anderson was fined £1 and costs. George Albert Titterton, for failing to give way to traffic on the right, was fined £1 and costs. Norman Trevor Drummond, whose car carried wrongly-adjusted lights, was fined £1 and costs. For exceeding the speed limit, of 30 miles per hour in a restricted area, John William (Roughan was fined £2 and costs. ' • (Robert Douglas White, for having driven a vehicle for which a heavytraffic license had not been obtained, was fined £1 and costs. M. Stevenson Ltd. .(Mr J. B. Thomson). pleaded hot guilty to a charge of contravening the regulations cover! ing tfie maximum length of a vehicle' and trailers, it 'being stated that, the defendant’s vehicle and a mobile crane! covered 80 feet, which was 20 feet over the maximum.—Mr Thomson’s'defence was _ based on ■ the . definition of. “trailer” in the regulations, and the Magistrate dismissed the information. CHIMNEY FIRES. For permitting their chimneys to catch fire, William Ernest Andrews, Jonathan William Barker, Frederick George Ellis, Duncan Craddock Gilrnour, and Albert Lorenzo Stanton were each fined 5s and costs. .