FALSE NUMBER PLATES

Taranaki Daily News, 31 August 1933, Page 2

FALSE NUMBER PLATES

UNEMPLOYED MECHANIC FINED. Pleading guilty to charges of driving an unlicensed car and of driving a car with a wrong number plate attached, Julius A. Johnson was fined £l los (costs 10s) on the second charge and convicted and discharged on the first when he appeared before Mr. W. H. Woodward ,S.M., in the New Plymouth Court yesterday. It was explained by Inspector R. Area, of the Taranaki County Council, that Johnson was an unemployed motor mechanic. When offered a repair job by a Uruti resident he drove from New Plymouth in his unlicensed car. He injured his shoulder and was driven back in his own car, to which the Uruti motorists number plates were attached. Johnson’s car had since been registered and the more serious offence was driving with the false plates. , Johnson admitted the facts. On the night of the offence he drove to see his mother, who was iIL The matter could not be treated lightly, remarked the magistrate in delivering judgment. He allowed Johnson three weeks in which to pay the fine.