UNLICENSED TRACTOR
DRIVEN ON ROAD ( HEGISTK AT lON NEEDED (Per Press Association.) •MASTERTON, this day. A case of interest to some 300 tractor owners in the Wairarapa in which a traffic inspector, W. G. Milne, proceeded against John Charles Judd, was heard in the .Mastertou Magistrate's Court yesterday. yj Judd was charged . with permitting his tractor to be used on the main highway without having a license. -s
The evidence showed that an employee of Judd’s was taking the tractor along a road for a distance of about five chains from one part of the farm to another.
The inspector said that his instructions from the department were to proceed against all motor vehicles using the roads without holding a license or being insured. After a lengthy discussion in chambers, the magistrate, Mr. H. P. Lawry, held that a tractor was a motor vehicle and that it was liable for registration. In view of it being the first case of its kind in the district, the magistrate entered a conviction without penalty or costs.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19884, 10 March 1939, Page 6
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