MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Southland Times, Issue 23650, 27 October 1938, Page 9

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

WEDNESDAY (Before Mr R. C. Abernethy, S.M.) James Arthur Davis was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence within six months if called upon for carrying on the business of a secondhand dealer and not being the holder of a second-hand dealer’s licence.

Charles Robert Herman (Mr T. V. Mahoney) was fined £1 10/-, with costs 10/-, for driving a motor-car in Dee street without due care and attention. On a charge of not reporting an accident he was convicted and ordered to pay 10/- costs. James Ernest Boyd was fined £2, with costs 10/-, for being the holder of a goods-service licence and over-load-ing a motor-lorry used under such licence.

The Southland Carrying Company Limited (Mr G. C. Cruickshank) was fined £3, with costs 10/-, for being the holder of a goods-service licence and failing to observe the restriction imposed by Clause 1, Transport (goods) Order 1936, and Clause 9, Transport Licensing (good-service) Regulations, 1936.

William McGibbon (Mr Mahoney) was charged with driving a motor-car at the intersection - of Lowe and Dee streets without reasonable consideration for other persons using these streets. He was also charged with being the driver of a motor-car approaching the intersection of Lowe and Dee streets and failing to give way to a vehicle on his right. The two charges were dismissed.

lan Iredale was fined 10/-, with costs 10/-, for riding an unlighted bicycle during the hours of darkness. UNREGISTERED CARS For knowingly using unregistered motor-cars along the Invercargill-Bluff main highway, John Garnet Perry, William Young and Archibald Chisholm were each fined 10/-, with costs 10/-. For permitting three unregistered motor-cars to be used along the Invercargill-Bluff main highway, Watts and Grieve, Limited, was fined £1 10/-, with costs 10/-, on each of the three charges. Inspector J. C. Edwards said that three new cars were landed at Bluff and driven to Invercargill There was

only one number plate on each car, and as a result two of the cars had the same number.

James William Welsh (Mr Cruickshank was fined £1 10/-, with costs 12/-, for being a licensee of a goods service and carrying on a goods service between InvercargiU and Ohai otherwise than in conformity with the terms of his licence.

For being the owner of a heavy motor-vehicle and operating the vehicle without having first obtained a heavy traffic licence, Martin Colvin was fined 10/-, with costs 10/-. John McLeod was fined £l, with costs 12/-, for permitting seven cows to be at large on the Lorne-Tuatapere main highway. George Climo was fined £2, with costs 10/-, for using and permitting to be used, scaffolding not in compliance with the regulations under the Scaffolding and Excavation Act, 1922.