MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 April 1939, Page 2

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

TO-DAY’S GREYMOUTH CASES. Messrs J. M’. Bunt, J.P., and M. J. Fogarty, J.P., presided at a sitting of the Greymouth Magistrate’s Court, today. A prohibition order, for a period of 12 months, was issued against a local lesiueut. on Ihe application of his sister. Charged with driving a motor-car hy night, with insufficient lights, Frank Reginald Keys was lined .10/- with costs. It was stated that defendant had only one headlight. John Edward Case pleaded not guilty to a charge of failing to keep to the left, when driving a motor car. Traffic Inspector J. W. Ro worth said that defendant, had driven on the wrong side of file road in High Street. He had also crossed Sawyer’s Creek bridge on the wrong side, a danger--1 ous practice. Defendant’s excuse was that the steering gear was stiff. Defendant said he had gone on to tlie wrong side of the road at the bridge, in order to pass a. cyclist. The cyclist, had no lights, and he wanted to give him plenty of room. Defendant was fined 10/-, witli costs. For failing to have warrants of fitness for their motor-cycles, William Charles Bell and Peter Tennent were each fined 10/-. with costs. On similar charges in respect to motor cars, David James shaw and Lance William Fairlie were each fined 10/-. with costs. For cycling by night without lights. Reginald Edward Lewis was fined 10/-, with costs.

Robert E. McNair, on a charge of having no driver’s license for a. motorcar, was fined 10/-, with costs. Gordon B. Saunders and Kevin Coll, who were charged witli exceeding the speed limit, of 30 miles an hour in High Street, were, each fined 30/-, with costs. It wasI’stated 1 ’stated that, in each ease -the. speed was 40 miles an hour. A charge of exceeding the speed limit in Tainui Street was preferred against John Keating. Traffic Inspector Roworth said he checked defendant’s speed at 4,5 miles an hour. A fine of 30/-, with costs, was .imposed. Two charges, of carrying on motorlorries more than the maximum loads for which they were licensed, were preferred against Dunn’s Transport, Ltd. (Mr. AV. Douglas Taylor). They were also charged with using a lorry of a. weight exceeding the maximum allowed on the road at the Ten Mile, and with carrying on a goods service, in a controlled area, otherwise than in conformity with tiie terms of the license. The last charge was adjourned to be heard by the S.M. on May 8. and, in respect of the other three, pleas of guilty were entered. Traffic. Inspector Roworth said that in one case the load was one ton in excess of the maximum, and in the other case it was one ton nine cwt in excess.

Mr. Taylor said that at the time defendant. company was carting coal, which had been in the binns over the week-end, and had become heavy through getting wet. On one charge of overloading, defendant. company was fined £1 15/-, and on the other, £3 5/-, with costs in each case. On the third charge, a. conviction was entered, with an order to pay costs.

A charge of overloading a. motorlorry, to the extent of one ton pne cwt, was preferred against Kennedy Bros., Ltd. On behalf of the defendant firm, it was stated that they were the pioneers of motor transport in Greymouth, and that this was their first offence. A fine of £1 10/-, with costs, was imposed. John Gilbert and Len Tomasi, trading as Gilbert and Tomasi, were fined 10/- with costs, for having no number plates on a motor-lorry. A fine of 10/-. with costs, was imposed on Fahey’s Transport, Ltd., for operating a. trailer without a heavy traffic license. It was stated that a license had since been taken out. A fine of 10/- with costs was imposed. George Patrick Diedrichs was fined £3 10/-, with costs, for overloading a motor-lorry.