PERSISTENT DEFIANCE

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 52, Issue 3767, 10 June 1936, Page 4

PERSISTENT DEFIANCE

GOODS SERVICE REGULATIONS. CARRIER FINED HEAVILY. Allegations of persistent defiance of the goods traffic legislation were made against Victor Lewis Shuter, a motor lorry owner, 26 Customs Street, Auckland, in the Papakura Police Court on Monday. Two traffic inspectors gave evidence that in spite of frequent prosecutions with heavy fines, defendant continued to set the law at defiance by carrying on unlicensed goods services. The magistrate, Mr F. H. Levien, described Shuter as a road pirate. “He is impossible and has got to stop," said Mr Levien. On three charges of operating an unlicensed goods service, Shuter was fined £9O with costs £1 10s. With fines totalling £3 10s, with costs £l, on charges of operating a heavy motor lorry at a speed in excess of 20 miles an hour—the maximum permitted for a vehicle of the particular weight—the penalties imposed on defendant at the sitting amounted to £95. Thomas Charles Clissold, traffic inspector, gave evidence that on March 19 he stopped one of defendant's lorries at Pokeno. It was laden with drums of petrol for Dalgety’s, Te Kuitl. The driver, A. R. Sigley, produced a register to show that the lorry was on hire to Dalgety’s. However, on being interviewed, Dalgety’s denied that they were hiring the vehicle, an,d referred him to the Vacuum Oil Company, The latter said they were paying the ordinary price a drum for carriage to Te Kulti. Other evidence tendered referred to the charge of excessive speed, and to the operations of Shuter’s service. T. C. Clissold said: “We can go out and catch Shuter every day of the week.” The inspector produced a photograph of a new depot in Auckland which, he said, Shuter had opened in recent weeks. It showed the sign: “Shuter’s Rotorua - Taumarunui Transport, Daily.”