A DARING MOTORIST

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 73, 22 June 1928, Page 5

A DARING MOTORIST

SMOKING NEAR EXPLOSIVES.

HEAVY FINE,

SYDNEY, June 11

When, John S- Jackson, a grazier, of “Belle Vue,” St. Macly’s drove on to the vehicular ferry Killara on April 30 in. a Rolls Royce, smoking a cigar, ho was told by a deckhand that he had pulled up alongside a waggon full of explosives. Jackson laughed. To-day he was fined £SO or six months at the Central Summons Court for smoking on a vehicular ferry. Jackson also had to pay costs amounting to £3 os. Ernest Reid, master of the Killara, said lie saw Jackson drive aboard the ferry, smoking a cigar, and sent a dcekliKvnd to warn him. Patrick Martin said that he 0 Jackson) not to smoke. He also toll* him he was alongside an expbsive waggon. There was a red flag banghur from tub end of the waggon. _ Jackson said that he had the cigai in his hmul when he drove aboard but ho did not smoke W on drew his attention to the cigar or th fact that he was near a waggon loa of oTmn U satisflod that jem doliherately smoked a cigar on a velncnhu ferry after you had been warned, sVrid Mr Laidlaw, S.M.