RUATORIA COURT

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20863, 15 August 1942, Page 4

RUATORIA COURT

MANY TRAFFIC OFFENCES Before Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M., in the ftuatorip. Magistrate’s Court on. Thursday, several, breaches of the traffic regulations were admitted.. Charles Wilkie, carrier, pleaded not guilty, to a charge of, carrying On a bus passenger service between Wfai'-o-matatini and Ruatoria not pursuant to a passenger service license issued •by the Licensing Authority. RJir. G, J. Jeune, for the defendant, said that ■since the information had been laid application had been made for a passenger license. The defendant was convicted and discharged. On charges of not being in possession of a. driver’s license. Dwiiiis Kemp, domestic, Melville Quantrille Gudgeon, and Joseph Taolin, farmer, -were fined 5s and costs 10s. For not having warrants of fitness for their motor vehicles, Wi Maraki and Oswald Temple Williams, farmers, were fined 10s and, costs 1,7 s each, and for not being in, possession of Cither a driver’s license or a warrant of fitness Pene Whaipoo'ti was fined 5s and posts 10s. and 10$ and costs 1.5 s on the respective charges. Pleading guilty to. a charge of assaulting Olliver Goldsmith. Daniel Harrison, motor mechanic, was convicted and fined £2. Peter Rogers was sentenced to one month’s, imprisonment for stealing sheep, the property of Pakanui Nihoniho. The accused, it was pointed out, had a list of previous convictions. On a charge of having used. obsqc n e language in the Gaiety Theatre, William Reedy, labourer, was fined £4 and 17s costs.