CYCLISTS WITHOUT LIGHTS

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 23 August 1935, Page 5

CYCLISTS WITHOUT LIGHTS

OPUNAKE COURT FINES. “Complaints have been made by motorists about these bicycles being on the roads at night without lights, ” said Constable Clouston to Mr W. H. Woodward, S.M., in the Opunake Magistrate’s Court yesterday, when asking for substantial penalties to be inflicted on a batch of cyclists who were charged with Tiding at night without lights. The defendants were Frank Philip Shepherd, Thomas Victor Sherson, James Grech and Desmond Dynes, and each was fined ss, costs 12s.

Constable Clouston said that as a result of complaints by motorists he stationed himself near the bridge on the south boundary of the township just after the theatre closed on July 27. Shepherd and Grech both rode their cycles along the main road without lights and he accosted them. Dynes was caught at 7.30 o’clock the same evening.

The charge against Sherson aa - ose from a narrow escape from serious injury. *t)n the night of July 22 a lorry driver called on the constable and reported that as he was driving along the main road near Oaonui he sa.'u an unlighted, cycle •on the road. He thought he might have struck it, so he stopped. When he went back he found that the cyclist had run off the road and into a bank. • The rider suffered a cut on the head.