POLICE COURT

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 220, 15 August 1927, Page 6

POLICE COURT

MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS. BREACHES OF BY-LAWS. ]\JW S rs W. F. Durward and D. L. Lovelock, J.P.’s, presided over the regular sitting of the Police Court this morning. ... , . On a charge of having driven a motor car at a ’greater speed than ID miles per hour in Main Street, Lewis Gold was mulct in the sum of £l> with costs 10s. , . ... Thomas Rogers, for having left a motor car more than 10 feet from the kerb in the Square and, in addition, facing the wrong direction, was lined £l, with costs 10s. Excessive speed in the outer area cost Albert George Jenkins £l, with No light on a bicycle after dark cost Reginald Young 10s, with costs 10s. NEGLIGENT DRIVING ADMITTED. On a charge of negligent driving of a motor car at the intersection of Grey and Ruahine Streets on July 4, William Adams pleaded guilty. “This is rather a bad case,” stated Senior-Sergeant O’Grady. “Defendant drove up Grey Street and turned into Ruahine Street at a speed estimated by three witnesses at not less than 40 miles per hour.” Twofcyclists, added the Senior-Sergeant, had to hurriedly get out of his way. A fine of £3 was imposed, with costs 10s. SUNDAY TRADING. Charged with exposing goods for sale on a Sunday and with having made a sale, Stanley Ernest Thompson pleaded guilty to the first charge and not guilty to the second. On oath, Constable Beaton stated that he had seen a boy coming out of the shop with a bag of sweets in his hand, and that, on being questioned, defendant had admitted that he had sold the sweets to the boy. Fines of £1 and.. 10s were imposed, with total costs 6s. BOROUGH TRAFFIC CASES' On the information of the borough traffic department, Neil Anderson, tor failure to equip his motor cycle with an efficient silencer, was fined 10s, with costs 3s. On a further charge of having failed to carry current number plates, Anderson was mulcted in an additional 10s, with similar costs. Christopher P. Haldane did not appear on a charge of driving a motor car at a greater speed than 20 miles per hour in Main Street East and was fined £2 with costs 10s. Against Earnest E. A. Newson there were preferred three charges: (l)riding a bicycle after dark without a light; (2) riding on the footpath; (3) refusing to stop when called upon. Defendant dicLnot appear and was fined 10s, with similar costs, on each charge. Pleading guilty by letter to a charge of failing to produce, on demand, his driver’s license, Walter Parkes.was fined 10s, with cost' 12s.

Albert Wilde, on a charge of having carried a passenger on the rear of his motor cycle, was fined 10s, with costs 12s.

Walter Strawbridge, for cycling after dark without a light, was mulct in the sum of 10s, with costs 10s. Failure to provide his motor cycle with sufficient lights cost Leonard Buckma.n 10s, with costs of a similar amount. » MOTORIST CHARGED.

A plea of not guilty was entered by Frank Mortimer Cordery in respect of a charge of negligent driving of a motor car on the Shannon-Tokomaru Road on July 16. Defendant pleaded guilty to a further charge of not having had at the time a driver’s license.

For the police evidence was given that defendant had driven through the main street of Tokomaru at a speed of 25 miles per hour, meeting a number of cows and striking one.

Defendant, on oath, denied excessive speed and maintained that, as it was dark at the time, the cows should not have been on the street. On striking one of the beasts, he pulled up immediately, He had been motoring since 190 S, and this was the first time that he had met trouble. . tie admitted that he had not renewed his driver’s license.

The court dismissed the first information and imposed a fine of £l, with costs 10s, on the second.