MOTORISTS BEFORE COURT

Taranaki Daily News, 23 October 1930, Page 2

MOTORISTS BEFORE COURT

CHARGES LAID IN NEW PLYMOUTH TAVO INFORMATIONS DISIMISSED. A large number of traffic prosecutions were heard by Mr. R. W. Tate, SAI., at New Plymouth yesterday. ‘This, I think, is the first occasion on Which a plea of guilty has been made to such an offence under ordinary circumstances,” .said Senior MeCrorie when Roy Eric Eaton was charged with approaching' the Watson Street intersection in Devon Street on September 20 at a gTeater speed than 15 miles an hour. There, had been a collision with a car driven by Jack Fetzer, who admitted last week failure to give way to the right, the infliction of a fine being then postponed. Eaton was fined 20s, with costs £2 7s, and Fetzer 2Os, with costs £1 19s. Samuel George McGowan, who wrote explaining the circumstances, was fined £2 and costs 10s for driving a car without a tail light on October .3. May Caroline Whitcombe was convicted and ordered to pay l ! 0s costs. for driving a ear in Devon Street at nijht without lights. Iler husband explained the oll'ence was purely accidental and the trouble was remedied as sOon as discovered. The lights were out Ohly a short time. For having no tail light on his ■ ir on the night of October 3 Alwyn Elliot Horsfall was lined £l-and 10s costs. A fine of £2 (10s costs) Was inflicted on Robert McQtiade’for cutting the corner of Devon and Currie Streets on October G.

Failure to 'give way to traffic on his right at the corner of Devon and Egmont Streets cost John Eric Bain a fine of £1 and costs 18s. , For allowing his car to stand in Devon Street, near Brougham Street, so that ■ vehiclbs • turning- ’corner had to turn on to their wrong side, Edgar Mills Ennis Was fined.£l (10s costs). Turi Pui Was fined 10s and 17s costs for riding his motor-cycle without a tail-lamp at Waiwakaiho on the night of September 6. ' Thomas Neale was fined £1 and ( 12s costs for rfdiiig a bicycle at night at ‘VYaiwakaihp without a proper light. Because the footbrake on his motorlorry waa not efficient when he drove at Omata on October 3 Archibald Thompson was fined £1- and 12s costs. Stanley Marcus Gall was filled £1 and 12s costs for not having an efficient footbrake On his car at Offiata on October 3. .< The magistrate dismissed for- want of evidence a charge Of driving a nibtorlorry without proper lights -in Devon Street on October 3, The defendant, Robert Flintoff, ’ represented by Mr. R. H. Quilliam, admitted lie had been driving that' night but denied he was in that part of the street mentioned iii the police evidence. . ' Gordon Pono Stewart Smith pleaded not guilty to a charge of failing to keep his car to the left of Frankley Road on September 28. He conducted his own case and called evidence rebutTirtg that of the police. There had been a Collision iieht a bend with another car driven by Christopher Smith. De* fondant contended he was not. on o wrong but the correct side of the road. The magistrate dismissed the Charge.