CITY POLICE COURT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20706, 2 May 1929, Page 3

CITY POLICE COURT.

Wednesday, May 1. (Before Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M.) CARELESS MOTORISTS. For allowing his motor car to stand outside the exit of the Grand Picture Theatre, Melvin P. Greenslade was lined 10s and costs (10s). Charged with cutting a corner when turning out of Cumberland street into Stuart street, Robert Johnston was fined 20s and costs (10s).Ivan Penrose was fined 10s and costs (10s) for failing to have the regulation number plate attached to a motor car in his charge. William Stanley Jefferson, who admitted having driven a motor car along Crawford street at a speed of between 30 and 35 miles per hour, was charged with dangerous driving and was fined £3 and costs (10s) . i Robert Scott Pringle, who pleaded guilty to charges of dangerous driving, failing to stop when ordered, to do so by a traffic inspector, and being an unlicensed driver, was fined £2 and costs (10s) on the first information, and 10s and costs (10s) on each of the other two. On a charge of driving an insufficiently silenced motor car, Harold Lambert Downing was fined 20s and costs (10s). —Similarly charged in respect of motor cycles, John Alfred Lilley, Robert Peacock, and Henry Ostarasch were each fined a like amount, the last-named defendant also being fined 20s and costs (10s) for being an unlicensed driver. Charged with failing to have attached to their motor vehicles a mirror arranged so as to give a view of a vehicle about to pass on the right, the following were each fined 10s and costs (10s) : —William Allison, David Auld, Thomas Ballintyne, Thomas Bachop, Leslie Carson, Jack W. Clements, Allan Crighton, Dick Crighton. Arthur C. Devlin, Arthur E. Gibb, Robert J. Gillespie, Herbert H. Hastle, Raeburn Hopkins, William Hawley, Frederick P. Hughes, Frederick Hyder, William Johnston, Ruth Lindsay, Robert Lloyd, John Lockhart, Bertie vS. Matthews, Hugh T. Miller, Arthur C, Miles,' John C. M'Kay, Victor Poison, William H, Ranger, George R. Ritchie, Andrew Robson, Sylvester Russell, Alan Shaw, Roland D. Todd, Stewart Watson, May Weedon, Allan Weir, Alfred J. White, Thomas White, Joseph Whitson. A CASE DISMISSED. Frederick George Duncan, who was represented by Mr A. G. Neill, pleaded not guilty to having failed to stop at the rear of a stationary tramcar. —Inspector Thurston, in evidence, stated that the tramcar in question had stopped outside the Strand Theatre, and the dc-* fendant had driven round the off side of it. Witness was on the other side of the street, and could not see whether any passengers were boarding or alighting from the car.—Mr Neill pointed but thftt the stop in question was a conipulsory one for ail tramcars whether they were picking up or setting down passengers or not. In the present instance there was no evidence that the car had stopped for passengers, and as the by-law clearly stated that it was illegal for a motorist to pass a tramcar stopped for the purpose of picking up or setting down passengex-s, he submitted there was no case to answer.-—The magistrate agreed with Mr Neill, and dismissed the information.