MAGISTRATE CONVICTS MOTOR LORRY DRIVER

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6733, 9 October 1928, Page 2

MAGISTRATE CONVICTS MOTOR LORRY DRIVER

PREFERRED TO; BELIEVE INDEPENDENT WITNESSES SEQUEL OF COLLISION. Reserved judgment was delivered in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday by Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., in the case in which tho Police prosecuted -Harold Win. Hurdle, public works employee, of Bunnythorpc, with being drunk while in charge of a car and secondly, with negligent driving. Tho case, arose out, of: a collision between a motor lorry driven by defendant and a sedan car driven by Miss Perry, of Peilding, which occurred at the intersection of Milson’s line and tho Bunnythorpe Kairanga road on tho evening of July 28. 1 ■ . - His Worship remarked that tho case resolved itself into one of credibility and ho preferred to believe the independent witnesses. Hardie woulfl be convicted, fined £lO and have his license endorsed. The second charge, that of negligent driving would be dismissed. 40.811bs; C. Mclntyre, 37.71b5; highest cow, 751bs; lowest 7. Group No. 11.—Average, 3C.091bs butterfat; highest herd, M. and B. McLean, 46.401b5; T. G. Vincent, 44.61 lbs. Group No. 12.—Average, 27.541bs butterfat;- highest herd, E. Hagan, 43.401b5.; E. Hooper, 39.231b5; highest cow, 641bs; lowest, 1. Group No. 13.—Average, 38.411bs butterfat; highest herd, H. E. Hookcn., 5.1.541b5; A Griffith, 47.92; highest cow, 1031bs; lowest 3. Group No. 14.—Average. 31.961bg butterfat; highest herd, G. Young. 36.341b5; Messrs Hazelwood and Logan, 34.561b5; highest cow, 761bs; lowest 9.