MOTORS AND LICENCES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19792, 12 November 1927, Page 15

MOTORS AND LICENCES.

LOCATION OF GARAGES.

[by telegraph.—own correspondent. J HAMILTON. Friday

A car service proprietor, Albert Edward Magon, was charged in the Hamilton Magistrate's Court to-day with permitting a motor vehicle to be used at Hamilton yvithout a heavy traffic licence. Mr. F. A. Swarhrick, who appeared for fho Borough Council, said that the defendant ran a car between Hamilton and Te Kuiti, leaving Hamilton in the early morning and returning to Hamilton in the evening. The vehicle was garaged at Hamilton and counsel submitted that on this account the heavy traffic licence should have been taken out at Hamilton. When questioned the driver said he had no licence in his possession, but the next day produced one that bad been issued that day at Te Kuiti. • The case was brought to correct wli.it counsel described was carelessness on the part of local body clerks in not adhering to the regulations, which provided that licences must be taken out in the towns in which the vehicles were garaged, when issuing the licences. ' , The magistrate said the point raised was "a nice one." He reserved his decision.