TRAFFIC BREACHES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20098, 3 May 1935, Page 10

TRAFFIC BREACHES

FINES IMPOSED Before Mr C. R. Orr-Walker, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, Stanley Easton, charged with driving a motor,vehicle at a speed which might be dangerous to the public, was fined £3 with costs 10/-. Alfred Major was charged with driving a motor lorry along Evans Street at a speed which might be dangerous to the public. Traffic Inspector Cameron said that defendant had travelled at between 30 and 35 miles an hour and had crossed intersections at an excessive speed. Defendant said that his speed was between 20 and 25 miles an hour. The Magistrate: Well that is an excessive speed across intersections. Major was fined £2 with costs 10/-. George Patterson, of Timaru, admitted operating a heavy traffic vehicle without a heavy traffic license. Kate Patterson, the owner of the vehicle, was charged with permitting Patterson to use it. The former was fined £1 with costs 10/-, while the charge against Kate Patterson was dismissed.

Roy Younger Anderson, a youth of 17, pleaded guilty to a charge of riding a motor-cycle without a driver’s license and also to riding an unregistered machine. Senior-Sergeant Hewitt said that the machine was an old one which defendant had managed to get going and he had taken it out on the street. The police did not press for a heavy penalty, but wanted it known that boys should not ride old machines which were unregistered. On the first charge he was ordered to pay costs 10/-, and on the second was fined £1 with costs 10/-.