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CARRIER BEFORE COURT ' RESTRICTION ON ROADS LOCAL BODIES CONCERNED A prosecution, which the traffic inspector described as being the first in the district with others pending, was heard before Mr W. H. Freeman, S.M., in the Paeroa Magistrate’s Court on Monday when F. R. Thomas, a cartage contractor of Puriri, was fined £2 10s with court costs 10s on a charge of exceeding the axle load with his heavy traffic vehicle. . Mr J. Pascoe, traffic inspector, « stationed at Paeroa, stated that on July 15 he saw a heavy motor vehicle turn off Hubbard’s road on to the main Paeroa-Ngatea highway near the Puke bridge, and when he stopped tha vehicle, which was carrying stock, he found it weighed 6 tons 5 cwt., whereas Hubbard’s road was a class 4 road permitting a load of only 4 tons. The traffic inspector, said it was the first prosecution in the district but others were .pending. The local bodies, he said, were particularly concerned regarding the manner in which the were cutting up, due to overloading.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 57, Issue 4054, 13 October 1948, Page 4
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