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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16373, 22 June 1927, Page 8

A motorist, Jack Osmond, was charged before Mr. K. C. Levvey, S.M,, this morning with passing a stationary tram in Gladstone road. Mr. T. A. Coleman, for the defendant, pleaded not guilty. Evidence of the defendant having passed the tram was giyen ny Sergeant Dempsey, who .was a passenger on ,fho car; he stated that the tram had cither, just stopped, or was actually stopping, mid the car was travelling at about; 25 miles an hour. For .the defence, Mr. Coleman said that when the defendant passed the train it was fully two chains from the j corner of Dominion road, and more- : over, Dominion road was not a rocogI nised. stopping place, and there was nothing to show that the tram was ' going to stop. In evidence the defendant stated that the tram was travel- '. ling at its usual speed when he pnssI ed it, and he was driving at from 10 Ito 15 miles nn hour. Corroborative ' evidence was given by the defonjdnnt's passenger, Albert Edward

Davics, who considered that Ihe motor-car was travelling at from. 15 to 20 miles an hour. Holding that tho ' breach was a technical one, the Magistrate ordered the defendant to pay to&ta only.