Fines and Penalties

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 80, 5 April 1938, Page 10

Fines and Penalties

PALMERSTON NORTH MAGISTRATE’S COURT Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., presided at the Magistrate's Court sitting in Palmerston North yesterday. H. K. Simpson was fined £3 with 19s J costs for driving a lorry without due ’care and attention. In passing a parkJcd car he damaged the mudguard and I did not stop. R. A. Burt wis fined £3 with 10s costs for failing to give way to traffic on the right. The charge was the result of a collision with another car at the intersection of Roberts line with the Bunnythorpe-Kairanga road. A fine of £2 with 10s costs was imposed on T. A. Daley for dangerous driving and £1 with 10s costs for having no warrant of fitness. | Driving without a license cost G. N. I Greer 10s with 10s costs. | G. A. Perreau, charged with driving f without due care and attention, was I fined £1 with costs £1 14s Gd. Riding bicycles at night without lights cost M. Levy and D. McTaggart 10s with 10s costs each. G. R. Palenski paid a^penalty of £2 with 13s costs for crossing a railway line in front of a train. A. E. Burgess and K. Mason were each fined 10s with £1 0s Gd costs for tailing to register poultry runs. D. G. Riddiford was fined £1 with 27s costs lor driving without due care and attention. The charge was the sequel of a collision between two cars in Broadway. Edward H. Armstrong, in arrears with maintenance due his wife to the extent of £205 Ss, was ordered to reduce the amount at the rate of 10s a week in default 3 months gaol.

Mervin Vivian Johnson was sentenced to 2 months gaol for being £3O in arrears with maintenance due his child but the warrant will be suspended so long as 5s a week is paid off the arrears.

Henry James Baker, in arrears with maintenance due his wife to the extent of £1 17s was ordered to reduce the amount at the rate of 5s per week or go to gaol for one month.