Only Traffic Cases Before Whangarei Court

Northern Advocate, 21 August 1945, Page 5

Only Traffic Cases Before Whangarei Court

No police cases came before the Whangarei Court yesterday, when the regular fortnightly criminal sitting was held, the magistrate (Mr. W. C. Harley) dealing only with traffic offences and domestic proceedings cases.

On charges of knowingly using mol or rehicles wren licenses had not: been issued, Alfred Richard Lamb. Albert Draper, John George, Bernard Joseph Hailes and Thomas Raymond Stott were each fined £1 with costs; William James Mar

hall was fined 10/- with costs, and George Joseph Davis. Charles Fisher and William Andrew Inkster were each convicted and ordered to pay costs. Similarly charged, Bruce Harold Wakelin was fined £1 with costs, while for not having a warrant of fitness he was fined 7/6 with costs. Stated by Senior-Inspector C. C. Davenport. of the Transport Department, to tiave been checked at 42 miles per hour. John Norwood was fined £2 with costs fn a charge of exceeding a speed of 25 miles per hour. Checked by Inspector H. R. Willis to have driven at 39 miles per hour, Chung Leong was fined £2 with costs on a similar charge, while for failing to keep his motor vehicle as close as practical to the left of the roadway he was convicted and ordered to pay costs. Admitting driving a motor cycle at a speed exceeding 30 miles per hour, Koroneria Neddie Kingi, stated to have been checked at a speed of 40 miles per hour, was convicted and ordered to pay 15/costs, while for driving without a license he was fined 10/- with 17/- costs. Cartage of Goods

Carrying goods for hint or reward, in .contravention of a direction given by the Whangarei Goods Transport Control Committee was charged against Ruki Tipene. Senior-Inspector Davenport said a direction had been made to operators that they could not travel more than five miles parallel with the railway without permission, the reason being conservation of tyres and petrol. Tipene did not seem to have much understanding of the regulation:;.

For Tipene. Mr. D. L. Ross said Tipene was a returned soldier who was net conversant with the regulations governing motor vehicles, and had not realised that he was debarred from undertaking tile work which had brought him to Court. A fine of £1 with 17/- costs was im posed.

“Skating on Thin Ice’’

Alteration of a warrant of fitness was admitted by Donald Leslie Houston. He pleaded guilty to charges of knowingly supplying false or misleading information relating to the traffic regulations by alleg. ing that a warrant of fitness was issued to expire on June 22, 1945, when it was issued to expire" on March 22, 1945, and of not having a warrant of fitness. Senior-Inspector Davenport said that when Houston had produced the warrant of fitness he had thought the figures had been altered. He had checked with the duplicate at the issuing garage and had found that the warrant had been advanced three months. Houston had broken his right wrist while cranking the car. “You have been skating on thin ice,’ the magistrate told Houston, “The charge could just as easily have been laid under the Crimes Act for forgery. Perhaps ii you had had a warrant of fitness you would not have broken your wrist. On the first charge, Houston was fined £l. with 10/- costs, while on the second charge he was fined 7/6, with 10/- costs Tiie magistrate dismissed a charge against Ernest Edward Taylor (Mr. D. J Thomson) of failing to notify the deputyregistrar of the sale of a motor car.