OVERLADEN MOTOR-BUS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20426, 30 November 1929, Page 16

OVERLADEN MOTOR-BUS.

COURT INFLICTS FINE.

PROSECUTION AT HAMILTON

[by telegraph.—own correspondent.]

HAMILTON, Friday,

" These prosecutions are of the utmost importance, because it is essential that the traffic must be controlled so that damage to'the roads will be .lessened as much as possible," said Mr. IVyvern Wilson, S.M., in the Hamilton Magistrate's Court to-day, when ho fined Buses, Ltd., Hamilton, £4 for driving an excessivelyloaded bus over the Hamilton-Cambridge Road.

Mr. F. A. Swarbrick, for tho Waikato County Council, said tho offence occurred (lie day after the company had been convicted for'a similar breach. Tho company then promised to keep its big bus off the road. Tlio driver was also warned before the bus left Hamilton. He said he would not take more than 24 passengers.

When stopped on, the .road tho bus contained 2b passengers and the driver. The stretch of road from Miller's Corner to Leslie's Gully, where the„bus was stopped, \\'S& graded fourth class, and the maximum load allowed on it was four tons. Tiie bus weighed over four tons, and, with load, was six tons in weight. Mr. A. L. Tompkins pleaded that the defendant company did not know the classification of the road, and had been informed that six-ton loads could bo carried on it.