COURT ORDER DISOBEYED.
CAR DRIVER IN TROUBLE.
LICENCE AGAIN SUSPENDED.
[by telegraph.—own correspondent.] HAMILTON, Friday. A fine of £5 and a further suspension of his licence until May 31, 1930, was the penalty imposed on James Torrence Cleary by Mr. Wyvcrn Wilson, S.M., in the Hamilton Magistrate's Court to-day. Sergeant Mathieson said that on July 17 defendant was convicted for a breach of tho Motor Vehicles Act and was fined £lO and his licence was suspended foxsix months. Two days later be was seen driving a car by Constable Aplin at Gordonton.
Mr. W. J. King, counsel for defendant, said his client drove the car through a drive which was in a dangerous condition and soon after reaching the main road he handed the vehicle over to a friend. He was the only person who could manage the drive. The magistrate, after imposing the penalty, ordered the suspenson and conviction to be endorsed on defendant's licence.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20324, 3 August 1929, Page 15
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