COUNCIL’S EASY MONEY
PROFITABLE SPEED-TRAP MOTORISTS RUSH TO RACES (Special to TUB SUN) MORRJNSVILLE, Friday. A large number of motorists Have cause to remember the Te Aroha races in February; some doubtless through money won or lost, but others through the Morrinsville speed-trap in which 58 were caught. Some got off, and 16 charges were withdrawn, but others provided the wherewithal for a little bitumen which might tempt them again next year. The figures were tabled by the Morrinsville Borough solicitors at a meeting on Thursday evening. The returns were: Speeding motor-cars, 39. fines, £6l 15s; speeding motor-lorries, two. fines, £3; non-observance of traffic domes, two, fines £2 10s; false information, two, fines, £3; total convictions, 44, fines, £7O ss.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 382, 16 June 1928, Page 5
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120COUNCIL’S EASY MONEY Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 382, 16 June 1928, Page 5
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