WENT FOR A GAP.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10508, 11 February 1928, Page 2

WENT FOR A GAP.

LANDED IN COURT. RACE TRAFFIC INCIDENT. When the motor traffic was streaming down Gladstone Road from the park racecourse after the last race on Thursday, one motorist, Jos. Weston, apparently not satisfied with the HO to do m.p.li. which the traffic was travelling pulled out and drove: down on liis wrong side for about four chains, according to Traffic Inspector Scott when defendant was charged with driving in a manner dangerous to the public. Pleading guilty, Air. S. V. Beaufoy, in extenuation explained that defendant was not attending the races, but passed the course .lust, after the last race, and stopped to pick up some people walking dowvi the road. Whilst doing so he was > tssecl by a line of cars, into which he c mid not edge . “He saw a gap in the line ahead of him hut it would have been more satisfactory to him ii he had seen the traffic Inspector,” remarked counsel amidst laughter. “He proceeded with the idea of getting into the gap; instead he got in Court.” (Laughter.) The defendant had been a motorist for 17 years and this was his first offence. The Magistrate commented that the case seemed to he in a different category to the motorist who broke out ol the lino of ears, and fined defendant £2 and costs.