70 MILES AN HOUR

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23036, 13 May 1938, Page 12

70 MILES AN HOUR

DANGEROUS DRIVING CASE AUCKLAND CHAUFFEUR FINED [from our own correspondent] CAMBRIDGE. Thursday A charge of driving a motor-car on tho Cambridge-Rotorua road at a speed that might have been dangerous to tho public was brought by tho Transport Department against Alexander Ferguson McNeil before Mr. S. L. Paterson, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday. An inspector of the department stated that defendant passed him on the Karapiro road and continued at a rate of 70 miles an hour. Witness set out in pursuit, but it was not until a straight stretch on the Hamilton-Cam-bridgo road was reached that he was able to stop him. t Mr. Peter Lewis, who appeared for McNeil, stated that defendant was a chauffeur in the employ of the Hon. Eliot Davis, of Auckland. He was unable to appear in Court as his employer required him in connection with the municipal elections, and he thus pleaded guilty. It was admitted that he was travelling fast, but not dangerously. He had experienced engine trouble and was making up time. Mr. Lewis asked that the magistrate take a lenient view of the matter and not suspend defendant's licence as his livelihood was affected. "He should have thought of that before," said Mr. Paterson in fining defendant £5, and costs, 10s. McNeil's licence was suspended and he was disqualified from obtaining another for three months.