Wheeled Bicycle On Footpath
The fact that the wheeling of bicycles on the footpaths in Gladstone road was ail offence and a warning that further prosecutions would follow in respect of other offenders was announced in the Police Court this morning by Senior-Ser-geant J. F. 11. Macnamnra when Edmund Dudley appeared before Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M., on a charge of that nature. The defendant was convicted and ordered to pay costs 10s. Minor Motor Accidents
Two minor week-end motor accidents reported to the police in Gisborne did not involve any injury to drivers or other occupants in the vehicles. On Sunday a Wellington visitor, Mr. William Edwards, was driving his car in Gladstone road, and was in the act of turning when another machine, driven by Mr. Leslie Robert Skilton, Patutahi, came into sharp contact with it, Neither car was much damaged. In the other case, which also occurred yesterday, a car driven by Mr. Geoffrey Owen, Carnarvon street, came into collision with verandah support in Gladstone road, necessitating repairs to the pole.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20139, 8 January 1940, Page 8
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174Wheeled Bicycle On Footpath Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20139, 8 January 1940, Page 8
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