MOTORISTS IN COURT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19119, 10 September 1925, Page 13

MOTORISTS IN COURT.

BY-LAW PROSECUTIONS.

A VARIETY OF CHARGES. MANUICAU ROAD SPEEDING. A number of motorists were charged with breaches of the traffic by laws in the Police Court yesterday before Mr. E. C. Ciitten, S.M. For speeding in Manukau Road at a rate estimated at 35 miles per hour Charles Leonard Qninn was fined £2, and on a charge of having no rear light he was fined 10s with costs ss.

A pica of not guilty was entered by James P. Stevenson to a charge of negligent driving. A constable stated that defendant drove between a safetyzone and a footpath on the wrong side of ' Symonds Street and turned into Khyber Pass. A taxi-driver gave corroborative evidenco.

Defendant admitted the facts, but stated he was compelled to take the wrong side. He was driving up Symonds Street and was passing a line of buses picking up passengers outside Scots Hall when without warning a bus pulled out in front of him. He was then on the cram tracks with a pole immediately in front and a tram coming up behind him. To avoid having his car crushed by the tram he crossed to the other side.

The magistrate said that defendant had exercised his judgment to the best of his ability, and this could not be called negligence. The case was dismissed. MISCELLANEOUS BREACHES. For passing stationary trams Harry Percy Rao Foster and Freda Verne Allison were fined 10s, with costs 13s, and £1 with costs l-5s respectively. On charges of failing to obey traffic signals Victor A. Collins was fined 10s and costs 13s, and William A. Edower 10s, with costs lis. Fred William Laurie, charged with leaving a 1 car without lights, stated he had returned late and found the garage locked. Ho had parked the car under a Btreet lamp. Ho was fined 10s with costs. Jack R. L. Munro, charged with a similar offence, was stated to have left his car outsido his shop, which was brilliantly lighted. He was ordered to pay costs, lis. For leaving a car standing without lights in a blind street off Symonds Street Sarah Agnes Staples was fined 10s and lis costs. Frederick Collins and Gum Leon Lowe were fined 20s and 10s respectively, with* costs, for similar offences.

Harold Clay W 3 similarly dealt with for leaving a inotor-car standing over a street firoplug. TROUBLE OVER NUMBER PLATES. Proceedings were brought by the Mount Eden Borough Council against Winstone, Ltd., on three charges of failing to have a number plate affixed to a lorry, failing to replace a lost number and having an unauthorised number platei; The manager of the company stated the number plates were brittle and frequently broke off in the work on which the lorries were engaged. Several lorries had already been reregistered, but it was •quite a contract to get them registered again, and it sometimes took two or tnree days'. According to the regulations a lorry would have to be left on tffa side of the road when a plate broke off. It w.*sr. necessary for the lorries to carry on tl?eir work, and it had been thought that no • harm would bo done if the number were painted on a plate instead of waiting for the authorised plate. The correct number had been used, ( and it had been painted in the same way as on the authorised plates. The ( company was convicted and ordered 'to pay' costs on. one charge, the ether charges being dismissed.