NAPIER MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 155, 16 June 1932, Page 6

NAPIER MAGISTRATE’S COURT

(Before Mr 8. L. Paterson, S.M.) TO-DAY’S CASES. An accident on the Napier-Bay View road on May 24 last, when two motor vehicles collided, found its sequel in Court, when John Jones, a hawker, of Bay View, was charged with negligent driving. The defendant, who did not appear, was convicted and fined £1 with costs 13s. Another accident in George’s Drive on May 22, when a car ran into a cycle, resulted in Ethol Maud Wood being convicted for negligent driving. She was ordered to pay costs, 10s. Pleading guilty to a charge of failing to give way to traffic approaching from the right at the intersection of the Marine Parade and Rallies street, Alatthew Wallace Munro was convicted and fined £l, with costs IDs. A fine of 10s, with costs 10s, was imposed upon Joseph Bernard Dooney, of the Green Cabs Taxi Service, for employing a driver who was not the holder of a drivers license. For being £24 in arrears with a maintenance order in respect of his wife, Simon Scullin, a labourer, of Meeanee, was conivcted and sentenced to three months' imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended so long as he pays current maintenance and 2/0 per week oft' arrears. A charge of failing to give way to traffic approaching from the right "was brought against Thomas Charles Moore, a medical practitioner, of Napier, who pleaded pot guilty. After hearing the evidence His Worship dismissed the case.

Sergeant J. Daly, prosecuting for the police, stated that at about 4.50 o’clock in the evening of May 19 last the defendant was driving his car past the intersection of Ashridge road and Vigor Brown street. As a result of not giving way to a motor-cycle approaching from his right, a collision occurred, the cycle being damaged. The cyclist was travelling at 10 or 15 miles per hour, but the defendant at a faster pace. Counsel for the defendant urged that the cyclist was travelling on his wrong side of the road at a fast speed. The defendant was travelling at about 15 miles per hour, and was doing all that was required of him when passing the intersection.

John Albert Armstrong, a labourer, of Wellington, was convicted and admitted to probation for 12 months on a charge of obtaining from Frederick Stephen Hellyer a quantity of oil and petrol, of a total value of £1 ISs, by falsely representing that he was in the employ of the Napier-Wellington Transport Company. The accused was also ordered to make restitution of £1 18s and to pay Court costs and witnesses’ expenses.