TRAFFIC OFFENCES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19334, 26 May 1937, Page 12

TRAFFIC OFFENCES

NO TRANSFER OF SALE CAR FOUND ABANDONED Several crises involving breaches oi traflic regulations were heard in the Police Court, yesterday before Mr. K. J j . Walton, S..M.' M. G. Gillespie was charged that on March 8 ho sold a motor car to P. W. Tumbull and failed to notify the deputy registrar of the transfer of ownership. lie pleaded guilty to the charge. SeniorSergeant, .J. F. If. Macnamara said that advice had been received from Auckland on April 6 that a motor car bad been found abandoned" in the Auckland streets. and it was traced as belonging fa the defendant. Gillespie. The defendant was approached and admitted having sold the car to a, man named Turnbtill. The sale was made late in the afternoon and as Turnbnil was going to Auckland he had agreed to notify the deputy registrar and attend to the'transfer on the, road north. Defendant was lined 10s and costs 13s.

P. W. Turnbull was charged with using a motor car without having the transfer of ownership made by the deputy registrar, lie had bought the car and had taken it To Auckland. His son, the. driver, took ill' and was admitted to hospital in the city. He had no license and he left the car for his son and thought he would be able to attend to it. Defendant was fined 10s and costs 10s.

Charles Henry Roan, charged with having ridden a bicycle without a light in Peel street at night, was convicted and lined 5s and costs JOs.

dames Oimn was proceeded against by the tralllc inspector. Mr. D. D. Burden, for travelling in Gladstone road at il speed that might have been dangerous to the public The inspector estimated defendant's speed, between l.ytton road and Disraeli street, at between 40 and 4f> m.p.h. and said that, in that space he passed a car, two bicycles and nine intersections. Defendant said his speed at l.ytton road was 2G m.p.h. and lie did not increase it on the iournev down the road. After hearing the evidence, the magistrate said that in dismissing the information he did not consider the circumstances had been proved to be dangerous, although he did not suggest that the inspector was unable to judge the difference between 23 m.p.h. and 45 m.p.h.