TRAFFIC OFFENCES

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 57, Issue 3978, 7 April 1948, Page 5

TRAFFIC OFFENCES

COURT SITS IN PAEROA

FINES FOR MOTORISTS

A sitting of the Paeroa Magistrate’s Court was heljj at the Courthouse on Monday, Mr W. H. Freeman, S.M., presiding. Allen Sewell was fined 10s with court costs 14s for driving a motor vehicle while not holding a driver’s license. The traffic inspector, Mr J. Pascoe, stated that on December 27 he stopped a car on the Paeroa-Te Aroha main highway which was being driven by Sewell and found that he did not possess a driver’s license.

Tony Bues was fined £1 with court costs 12s for not having a warrant of fitness for a motor lorry. The clerk of the court stated that Bues had written in stating that he had a warrant of fitness for the lorry taken out on the same day as he had been stopped by the traffic inspector. The traffic inspector, Mr Pascoe, stated that he stopped Bues in Hill street, Paeroa, at 2.15 p.m. on December 27, and Bues had stated that he did not have his warrant of fitness with him, as he had left it at home. He asked Bues to produce a warrant of fitness as soon as he was able and Bues did this but the warrant was dated December 27. The traffic inspector stated that he had questioned the garage where the warrant had been issued and found that it had been issued during the afternoon of the day on which he had stopped Cues

R. Neil was fined £2 with costs 12s for operating a goods service other than in pursuance of his license. The traffic inspector. Mr Pascoe, stated that on January 21 he stopped a motor lorry loaded with timber near Paeroa and found that the authority only permitted it to operate in the Piako and Matamata counties.

W. McKain was fined £1 with court costs 10s on a charge of being the driver of a motor vehicle so loaded as to be likely to cause injury. The traffic inspector, Mr Pascoe, stated that on December 19 while proceeding down Hill street he noticed three sacks of coal lying on the side of the road. Further on he saw defendant with his truck stopped about to lift a sack of coal, which had fallen off the truck, back on to it. McKain had explained to him that he had loaded •the four sacks of coal badly and that they had fallen off while he was travelling along the road.