COURT AT WAIPUKURAU

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 79, 15 March 1934, Page 5

COURT AT WAIPUKURAU

s MISCELLANEOUS BREACHES. The monthly sitting of the Alagia. Irate’s Court was held at Waipukura* s before Air J. Miller, S.M., yesterday. Charged with negligent driving, , Hugh Proctor Blundell, Argyll, was fined £2 with costs 13/-. , Constable 1). Sutton snid that the of. 3 fence occurred at about 1 a.m. when defendant was driving some friends back to Waipukurau. Defendant travel. ’ led along for about 100 yards on the wrong side of the road, struck a bump, veered across to his left and ended up 1 in a fence. Ono passenger in the car sustained injuries. Ju reporting the accident that morning defendant said , he had dozed at the wheel. The bump in the road was about a foot high and almost ten feet long. 1 I Counsel for the defence said that ■ | Blundell was an experienced driver I and had it not been for the bump in the road there would have been no I accident. Incidentally, tbe bump vva( I' immediately repaired. For using a motor vehicle for which no license was in force G. A. Mein, tosh, Dannevirke, was fined 3(J/-. cost* 10/-. Charged with driving a heavy traf. fie vehicle without the required license, A. B. Hnstie, Waipukurau, was fined £l. costs 10/-. For failing to move his vehicle Buffi, cientlv to the left to allow an overtaking vehicle reasonable space in which to pass, Leslie Hill. Bulls, wag fined 15/-, costs 10/-, and on a charge of driving a heavy motor vehicle at an excessive speed lie was fined £2 with 10/- costs Oscar Pearson, Feilding, for driving a heavy motor vehicle at an excessive speed, was fined £2, costs 10/-.