YOUNG MEN CHARGED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 813, 6 November 1929, Page 11

YOUNG MEN CHARGED

FAILED TO REGISTER MOTOR-CYCLE SEQUEL TO COLLISION From Our Oxen Correspondent HAMILTON, Today. As the result of a collision several charges involving the sale of a motorcycle and the transfer of numberplates were preferred against two young men in the Police Court this morning. Herman Magner, a factory hand of Frankton. was charged with using a motor-cycle without a licence, with affixing a wrong number plate to the cycle, and with failing to give way to a vehicle approaching from the right at an intersection. The evidence showed that Gordon McKinnon, a companion, sold the motor-cycle to Magner, who did not have enough cash to purchase new number-plates and have the cycle reregistered. McKinnon thereupon offered him number-plates off another cycle, which were duly attached. Defendant was fined lOs on the first charge and 20s on the second and third respectively, with costs on each charge and witnesses expenses. The other defendant, Gordon Neil McLeod McKinnon, a hairdresser’s assistant, -was fined 10s and costs, respectively for failing to notify the deputy-registrar after selling the motor-cycle, for aiding Magner in the offence, and for using an unlicensed cycle. McKinnon frankly admitted he was really to blame, and that he had suggested to Magner that .the number-, plates from another cycle might be used.