TRAFFIC REGULATIONS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 30 September 1926, Page 5

TRAFFIC REGULATIONS.

ft BREACHES DEALT WITH. TO-DAY’S COURT PROCEEDINGS. -- The fort-nightly sitting of the- Magistrate’s Court at Hawera. was resumed this morning, Mr J. S. 'Barton, S.M., presiding. For riding a bicycle without a light along Victoria street, Hawera, at 8.25 p.m. on September 18, Wilfred Brady, of Hawera, 17 years of age, was fined £1 and ordered to pay 7s costs. On a: similar charge, William S. Smith, of Matapu, who rode an unlighted bicycle along Stafford street, Norma nby, on the evening of September 18, was fined £1 and 7s costs. MOTORISTS’ OFFENCES. Innes, of Stratford, was charged with riding a motor-cycle Without a light in High Street, Hawera, at 10.45 p.m.' oil September 11 and informed the court he had taken a. short ride only, and owing to the -street lights was not aware that his cycle lamp was out. In inflicting a fine of os and 7s costs, the magistrate said he was taking the particular circumstances into account.

“'The night was a. moonlight one,” said Constable Lemm, in giving evidence on the charge preferred against John Crawford, of Hawera, of allowing a motor-car not properly lighted to stand in Victoria Street on the evening of September 18. —The magistrate said he would take the facts into consideration, and inflicted a fine of os and 7 s costs-.

Leonard Rowe, on a charge of _ allowing a motor van, not properly lighted, to stand in Victoria Street on the evening of September 12, was fined 10s and 7s costs. ' . '

“A DANGEROUS PRACTICE.” Vincent Mills (Tokaora), who forwarded a. written plea of guilty in answer to a charge of having driven a motor-car without sufficient lights in Victoria Street, Hawera, on the evening of September 18, was convicted and 1 fined £1 10s and 7s costs. Sergeant Henry explained that defendant’s ear was showing only one light, and that- on the left-hand- side, a practice the sergeant described as extremely dangerous.

“NOT TO BE TOLERATED.”, In a. written statement, Stanley E. Wi’ks, Okaiawa, who wa-s charged with driving a motor-cycle on September 27 across, the inter section of High and Princes Streets in a manner dangerous to the public, in that his speed was 25 miles an hour, expressed regret for having broken the by-laws. He offered the excuse that he was not acquainted l with the regulations. H© thought the speed stated in the charge “must be a mistake,” as he was convinced lie was not driving at more than 12 miles an hour. ' The case was proved by Constable F. N. Lemm. . “A speed of 25 'miles an hour is not to be tolerated,” ■ said the magistrate in entering a fine of £2 and 14s costs.