JUSTICES’ COURT

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3796, 17 August 1936, Page 8

JUSTICES’ COURT

OTOROHANGA SITTING. Before Messrs W. I. Bowyer, Geo. Neshausen and R. Bell, J.’sP., the following cases were dealt with:— BREACHES OF BY-LAWS. Gordon Urquhart, traffic inspector to the Otorohanga County Council, proceeded against the following for breaches of the County by-laws, as they relate to motoring traffic:— William Nicholsen, for operating a motor vehicle without being the holder of a motor driver’s license.—Fined £l, and IDs costs. . Same v. Archie McDonald, for failing to produce, a driver’s license.— Fined £2, and costs 12s. SUme v. Joseph B. Hodgson, for operating a motor vehicle without being the holder of a motor driver’s license.—(Fined £2, and costs 12s. Same v. Harold C. von Stunner, for failing to produce a motor driver’s license.—Fined 30, and costs 12s. Same v. Ray Winger Timber Co., for overloading on license.—Fined £5, and costs 10s. Same V. Les. J. Walsh, fo? speeding.—Fined £2 10s, and costs 10s. Same v. Stanley M. Kidd, for operating a heavy motor vehicle without being holder of a heavy traffic license. —Fined £4, and costs 10s. Same v. G. L. Marquand, for operating a motor vehicle without being the holder of a motor driver’s license. —Fined £2, with costs 10s. Same v. John Quinn, for operating a motor vehicle without being holder of a motor driver’s license. —Fined £l, with costs 10s. Same v. William Gault, for operating a motor vehicle without being the holder of a motor driver’s license. — Fined £1 and costs 12s. Same v. The Electrical Service and Hardware Co., for operating without a heavy traffic license.—Fined £5, with costs 10s. Same v. M. J. Hilder and Son, for failing to display necessary lights.— Fined 10s, with costs 10s. Same v. Ray Winger Timber Co., for overloading on road classification.—Fined £5, with 10s costs. Same v. Eric Bell, for operating an unregistered motor vehicle.—Fined 30s, with costs 10s. Same v. William H. Morrow, for operating a motor vehicle without being the holder of a motor driver’s license. —Fined £l, and 12s costs. Same v. Eric Bell, for operating a motor vehicle without being the holder of a motor driver’s license.— Fined £l, with 10s costs. Same v. Charles Tarrant, for operating 'a motor vehicle without being the holder of a motor driver’s license. —(Held over). Same v. Victor Allerby, for failing to produce a driver's license.—Fined 10s, and costs 12s. POLICE CASE. Hor.i Tonga, of Otewa, a native of the South Sea Islands, was charged with being the rider of a motor cycle on the old Te Kuiti-Otewa Road, and failing to keep such vehicle as far as practicable to the left of the centreline of the road. He was further charged with negligent driving on the same occasion. This was a case in which the defendant, on his motorcycle, and the County clerk (Mr S. J. Fortescue), on his bicycle, came into violent collision, both riders receiving injuries. • The defendant, Tonga, stated that he was not accustomed to the rules of the road in this country. In Tonga it was the custom for a poor man, like himself, to give way to a rangatira, as he took Mr Fortescue to be; however, he would know the rules here better on future occasions.

On the first charge Tonga was convicted and discharged, and on the second charge he was fined Ips, and 12s costs.