SUBSTANTIAL FINE FOR MAN WHO DROVE IN FRONT OF TRAIN.
William IT. Cook was fined £4 and costs in the Magistrate’s Court this morning for crossing the Durham Street railway crossing when the line was not clear.
“ I am imposing a substantial penalty less as a punishment to you than as a warning to others,” said the Magistrate, Mr C. R. Orr-Walker, S.M., when the evidence had been heard. “ I find it hard to fine men whose cars have actually been struck by trains, and who have themselves been injured, but you just cleared danger. An engine-driver’s job is enough without such rash offences as yours.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18448, 26 April 1928, Page 9
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