OFFENCES BY MOTORISTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19488, 18 November 1926, Page 17

OFFENCES BY MOTORISTS.

NUMBER OF PROSECUTIONS. COLLISION IN HOBSON STREET. Many drivers of motor vehicles were prosecuted in the Police Court yesterday by the police and the chief traffic inspector, Mr. G. R. Hogan. The police prosecutions were heard by Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., while Mr. E. C. Cutten presided over the traffic department's case 3. , _ . A collision between a Farmers Union bus and a motor-car at the intersection of Wyndham Street and Hobson Street resulted in the appearance of both drivers, the bus driver, Walter Groom, being charged with failure to give way to the vehicle on his right, and the driver of the motor-car, Andrew R. A. Ferguson, with dangerous driving. .Lengthy evidence was taken. Passengers in the bus stated the vehicle had stopped just after the front wheels had passed on to the concrete paving of Hobson Street and that the motor-car, coming up Hobson Street, had struck it, but the driver of the niotor-car, contended that the bus had tried to head him off. The magistrate, Mr. Cutten, reserved his decision until he could inspect the scene of the accident. Several motorists were prosecuted for dangerous driving. Harold Newson was fined £5 and costs, Oswald Jensen, £4 and costs, John Hector Steele, Norman Wilkinson and James Gilmour, £3 and costs, Richard T. Wilkinson, Ronald Ogier, Percy S. Priest, John W. Jones, Bernard N. Wilson and Charles J. McCulloch, £2 and costs, and Edward E. A Tait, Ernest Roughton, Reginald M Barker, Gordon Henry Luke, Robert H Hammond, Thomas W. Chalcroft, and Osmond J. Lorrigan, £1 and costs. The case against Charles Henry Madden, was dismissed. Two charges of speeding, one on Takapnna beach and one at Newmarket, were preferred 'against a motor-cyclist, Morris Dean. On each charge he was fined £2 and costs. Edward Norman Lynd, charged with speeding, was fined £2 and costs, and Reginal A. Bracey, was ordered to pay costs. Colin George Hutchings and Murray Wiseman were both fined £1 and costs for cutting corners, Harry Seddon Taylor was fined £2 and costs for speeding round the corner of Cook and Grey Streets, and Edwin George Whitehead, £1 and costs for passing a stationary tramcar. For having their vehicles improperly lighted, Roy Lancelot R. Hotchin was £2 and costs, Thomas Parris, £1 and costs and Norman John Paltridge, 10s and costs. A charge of dangerous driving was com bined with one of pillion riding against Wallace Swanson. He was fined £2 an 3 costs on the charge of dangerous driving and on the other charge was convicted and ordered to pay costs. For turning to the right in Queen Street, James Richard Sherry was fined £1 and costs. For holding on to a moving tramcar, Ivan Dow, a cyclist, was fined 10s and costs. Ernest W. B. LeQuesne was fined 10s and costs for leaving his car unattended, and a similar sum for leaving it near a fire plug. James Pennycook and Hector Malcolm were both fined 10s and costs for leaving their cars unattended. Driving without a licence cost Cyril urquhart 10s and costs. For failure to produce a heavy traffic licence a similar fine was imposed on Gerald A. Grace. Walter Hume Kerr was fined £1 and costs for failure to notify a change of ownership of his car, and Vincent A. Lorrigan a similar sum for driving without a front number plate.