BY-LAW BREACHES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 50, 4 July 1913, Page 4

BY-LAW BREACHES.

THE USUAL BIG BATCH. >

BOUND FINES IMPOSED

The chief business at the Court tin's morning was to deal with the charges of breaking the Borough bylaws laid by the Borough Inspector. In accordance with previous warning the fine for breaches was raised to £l, except in a few cases in which there were special circumstances. TWO STRANGERS. Frederick Lovelock pleaded guilty to driving a gig m Broadway on June 14th without lights. He said he thought it somewhat extraordinary that he should be so charged. He did not ■ take the local paper.. He had recently come from Palmerston, which was a much larger town, and where one light was considered sufficient. On the night in question be had one light, and it was a bright moonlight night, when it was better to drive without lights.

The S.M.: Most people seem to like idjriving! without lights on light or dark nights.

Defendant further stated that the night in question was the first which he had been in Stratford a^.

night during the two years he had been in the district. A fine of 20s with 7s costs was imposed.

James Moore admitted driving a gig through Broadway at 8.20 p.m. on June 21st without lights. He said he was a stranger from the South Island, where one light sufficed.

The S.M.: There seems to he a lot of strangers here. They all tell me they are strangers.

.Defendant was fined 20s with costs

AN INGENIOUS DEFENCE. Moses Phillips also admitted driving without proper lights, bup held he was not guilty so far as the charge read was concerned. He was not driving a gig; as stated in the charge.. The 5.M..: , It was,driving a buggy. ' This' ingenious defence availed no-* thing, and a fine of 20s with costs 7 4 s was imposed. A BRIBE REFUSED. -A. W. Hanson was fined 20s with 7s costs for riding- a bicycle on a footpath. The Borough Inspector said defendant was riding on a footpath in Regan Street on June 28th at 5,40 a.m. Defendant said :\ "I'll give you two shillings to-night if you-let me off," to which the Inspector replied : "Don't speak to me like that." The S.M. warned defendant of the seriousness of offering, bribes, and stated that fines for all breaches of the by-laws would be increasd. DRAY ON FOOTPATH. Frank Brown was find 10s with 7s costs for driving a horse and dray across a fcotpath in Fenton Street. He explained that he was delivering a load of firewood.

A LIGHT FINE

Victor Hannah, a. lad, was fined 5s.M with 7s costs for driving without lights. The lad's father stated that the breach had occurred while the lad was attending to an accident. LOOSE HORSES> A fine of 20s with costs 7s was imposed on James Sanson for driving nine loose horses in Juliet Street at 9.20 a.m. on June 29th.

The Borough Inspector said defendant had previously been fined 10s for a similar offence. INFORMATION DISMISSED. A. W. Hanson was charged with riding a bicycle without lights. In reply to the S.M. the Inspector said the offence occurred at the same time as the offence for which Hanson has been fined earlier in the morning.

The S.M. said the Inspector should have laid an information in respect of the offence of the greater magnitude. One fine having been imposed in respect of the offence another fine could not lie imposed.

The information was dismissed. ,

"GET OFF AND WALK."

McCallum was fined 10s, with 7s casts for riding a bicycle without a light. He said that while his bicycle was standing by the footpath somebody interfered with the light, which went out soon after he mounted the machine.

The S.M. : The correct thing to do in the circumstances was to dismount, but young, men seldom seemed to think that,

MOPE LOOSE HORSES.

G. Kendall was fined '2os, with costs 7s for driving loose horses in Juliet Street on June 20th.

Defendant said he understood his boss had permission to drive loose horses. The Inspector said the permission ivns confined to between 4 and 7 a.m.