POLICE COURT CASES

Taranaki Daily News, 10 December 1931, Page 15

POLICE COURT CASES

CHARGES IN NEW PLYMOUTH. lorry drivers proseouted. Miscellaneous cases were dealt with ibv Mr. R. W. Tate, S.M., in the New Plymouth 'Police Court yesterday. Donald Hookham admitted riding an unregistered motor-cycle with the wrong number plates on it. Ho fined and 10s. costs* A Oliver'Scott was fined £2, and IDs. coete, for cutting the corner of .powderham and Robe Street® on December 4._ John Sullivan was fined 10s., and las. costs, for driving a motor-lorry at night without a tail light. Charged with carrying a. greater load on his motor-lorry than it was licensed for, Hector McCabe pleaded .guilty. The chief inspector (Mr. R. Day) said this, lie had found, was the same load as was dealt with by the magistrate at Waitara recently for overloading with firewood. Mr. Day said he did not want to rub it in,” but desired to refute a statement made at Waitara 'that two inspectors had examined the brakes and found them all right. The fact was that an inspector examined the brakes in New Plymouth three hours later and they appeared to be all right. ; The magistrate: They were all right without the load. - McCabe was convicted and ordered to pay 16s. costs. For having carried, more than a certain .weight on a motor-lorry on November 23 without having a heavy traffic license, Charles Kidson was brought before the Court. He was bringing firewood into New Plymouth, said Mr. Day. He had admitted a weight of three tons to the inspector. Ho had had a license ilB months ago. The fee for a year iwopld ibo £7 13.5; Kidson said he was doing other work ! wllpn he had the license. On this oceaiaioii he had been, carting firewood from the country,-and'as the farmer wanted his paddock cleared in a hurry he took, .as-one load what, he would otherwise have taken' in two loads. To the Court he said he was willing to take out a heavy traffic license. The magistrate said he would adjourn the question of penalty for a, week. On proceedings taken against Ernest ißenyamin Forrester, Jennie Forrester was granted an order for separation and custody of the two children. Forrester was ordered to pay his wife £1 a week as maintenance and £2 2s. costs.