MOTORISTS’ OFFENCES

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 7 March 1935, Page 6

MOTORISTS’ OFFENCES

ELTHAM COURT FINES. NEGLIGENT DRIVING CHARGE. Several fines were inflicted in the Eltham Magistrate’s Court this morn- 1 ing in cases involving breaches of the traffic by-laws. With the exception of one, the prosecutions were made by the Eltham borough inspector (Mr A. E. Lethbridge). Mr J. L. Weir appeared for the council.

William E. Parkes, for failing to give way to traffic on his right, was fined 10s, costs 10s. Defendant pleaded guilty. Sergeant Henry stated that the case had arisen from an accident on February 20. Defendant had been proceeding along Conway Road, and in attempting to cross over High Street had collided -with a car driven by Mrs Corbett. He would say' in fairness to Parkes that he had made every attempt to meet the expenses of the damage to Mrs Corbett’s ear.

A charge of driving a motor cycle at a speed which might have been dangerous to the public was preferred against Frank Hopkins, grocer’s assistant of Eltham. He was fined £l, costs 10s.

Mr Weir said that it had been estimated that Hopkins had driven his cycle down High Street on March 4 at a speed of 3.5 m.p.h. There were swimming sports on at the time and a lot of traffic about. Defendant had said; that the cycle was not his own. He did not possess a driver’s license. “It is an old bike and will not go over 30 miles an hour,” said defendant. He had never had the throttle full out and estimated his speed on the occasion in question at about 25 m.p.h. For failing to have a light on his bicycle in Bridge Street on March 4, Herbert Glentworth was convicted and fined ss, costs 10s. Herbert Taylor was convicted and fined ss, costs 10s, on a charge of having no light on his bicycle in Bridge Street on March 4. On a second charge of riding his bicycle on the footpath in Bridge Street, he was convicted and discharged.

For driving a motor truck on the Auroa Road on February' S at a weight in excess of that laid down l in the- regulations, William Carbis was fined 1 £2, costs 10s. The prosecution was entered by' the Eltham county inspector (Mr H. E. Williams).

Mr Weir, who also appeared for the county, said that it was the second time that Carbis had been caught. It was not liis lorry as he was working for the Awatuna Dairy Co.

To the Magistrate, Carbis sard that he realised he had. broken the law, but he had been forced by- conditions to carry' the heavy load.