MOTORISTS FINED FOR BREACHES OF TRAFFIC REGULATIONS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22696, 22 July 1948, Page 6

MOTORISTS FINED FOR BREACHES OF TRAFFIC REGULATIONS

A number of motorists who had violated traffic regulations in Gisborne recently were dealt with by Mr- E. L. Walton. S.M., in the Gisborne Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Sergeant R. Griffith prosecuted the following offenders on behalf of the police:—Alan James Calder, Parau street (Mr. D. E. Chrisp) was charged with driving a car at a speed exceeding 30 miles per hour in the borough. He had seen the car driven by Calder proceeding along Gladstone road at a speed which he estimated was 50 miles per hour and which the defendant later admitted was over 35 miles per hour, said Sergeant Griffith. Calder was fined £3, and costs 10/-. For having no driver's license, Peter Raymond Cooper, Awapuni road, was fined 5/-, and costs 10/- On a second charge of driving a motor-cycle without due care and attention, he pleaded guilty and was fined 10/-, and costs 13/-. in view of his limited means. Cooper had tried to pass another car on the Roebuck road bridge, but had collided with an oncoming vehicle, said Sergeant Griffith. He was only a young apprentice, earning a small wage. Robert Ernest Ladd, Childers road, who was the driver of the car with which Cooper collided, was fined 10/-, and costs 10/-, for having no warrant of fitness of the vehicle.

Several prosecutions were also conducted by the Gisborne Borough Council's traffic inspector Mr. T. G. Nowell. Stella Leggett, married, Collins street (Mr. J. S- Wauchop) pleaded guilty to parking her car in a theatre entrance. It was explained by Mr. Wauchop that the car had been parked near the entrance to allow a lame woman to attend the theatre. The defendant was lined 10/- and costs 10/-. Tiie defendant had only one dim headlight and no tail light when proceeding -up Gladstone road on the night of June 18, said Mr. Nowell, when prosecuting Thomas Harold Oates, Rutene road, on a charge of failing to display the prescribed lights on his motor car during the hours of darkness. Oates, who did not appear, was fined £1 and costs 10/- on that charge, and 5/- and costs 10/- on a charge of having no driver’s license. For parking on a bus stand in Gladstone road on June 2G. Henry King, Hexton, who pleaded guilty, was fined 10/- and costs 10/-. The car had caused a great deal of inconvenience to the borough bus drivers, said Mr. Nowell.