“WOULD CLEAN HIM UP”

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 725, 26 July 1929, Page 16

“WOULD CLEAN HIM UP”

DRIVER THREATENS INSPECTOR FINE FOR DISOBEDIENCE (From Our O ten Correspondent) TE KUITI. Thursday. In the Magistrate’s Court at Te Kuiti on Wednesday, before Mr. F. W. Platts, S.M., George Oliver, motorlorry driver, of Te Kuiti, pleaded not guilty to failing to stop his motorlorry when requested to do so by the traffic inspector. The inspector, R. H. McKenzie, said he had passed defendant on the road to Rio Pio, and signalled to him to pull up, but defendant had continued up the Mangaotaki Road. Later, defendant returned to Fio Pio and pulled up at the road intersection, where the inspector approached him and asked ■what he meant by not stopping. “When I asked him why he had not stopped, he said he would ‘clean me up,’ ” remarked the inspector. Defendant declared that the inspector had spoken to him “like a wild bull.” Defendant said he did not see the inspector the first time. Mr. Mackersey (for the Waitomo County Council): You have threatened to “clean up” the inspector before, have you not?—No. The magistrate said it was clear the defendant had failed to stop when called upon to do so, and imposed a fine of £3 and costs. On a charge of overloading, Oliver pleaded guilty and was fined £4, and JOs costs.