MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 267, 9 October 1940, Page 5

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

The fortnightly sitting of the Magistrate’s Court in Feilding was held yesterday, Mr R. M. Wat sen, S.M., presiding. Three charges under the transport regulations were preferred against G. Wyatt, farm manager, of Waituna, by Mr D. M. Ford (traffic inspector). Defendant was charged with permitting the use of an unlicensed trailer, , permitting the use of an unlicensed tractor, and operating a trailer without a heavy traffic license. On these charges he was convicted and ordered to pay costs. E. H. Lamb, an employee of' B- Shannon. Waituna, was fined £l, with costs 12s, for failing to possess a driver’s license. Mr J. Graham appeared for defendants and pleaded guilty to the charges; he pointed out that the owner of the property was on military service in the Air Force. He admitted that there had been no need for the vehicles to use the road. Mr Ford said that the load on the trailer was too great for the tractor to haul and neither vehicle was licensed. The. vehicles had occupied a good part of the road for a length of 880 yards. Comment on the use of farmers’ tractors for the purpose of getting manures from one part of a farm to another was made by the Magistrate, who said lie thought it was the Court’s duty to regard sympathetically cases in which a farmer used a short piece of the highway to convey farm requirements to another part of his farm on the other side of the road. In the case before the Court; however, counsel for defendants had stated that the vehicles need not have been taken on the highway His Worship pointed out. however, that it was an offence to use an unlicensed vehicle on a highway and the traffic inspector had carried out his duty in prosecuting. On the ground that a property or 10 acres was on the market for sale and that it was impossible to effect a sale while the place was tenanted, H. G. 0. Brock, of Wanganui, proceeded against Mrs C. Edhouse claiming possession. Mr D. G. Culhnane appeared for the tenant and asked that time, at least eight weeks, be given his client to find another property. Mr T. L. Seddon appeared for Brock. An order was made fojP session to be'given by December 3. 1940, and for the payment of rent outstanding.