Rules of the Road Broken

Waikato Independent, Volume XLIV, Issue 6101, 12 September 1947, Page 5

Rules of the Road Broken

MOTORISTS IN COURT TAXI DRIVER STOOD DOWN Por various breaches of the traffic and motor vehicles regulations several motorists appeared before the monthly sitting of the Cambridge Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, with Mr S. L. Patterson, S.M., presiding. In each of the following cases the charges were laid by Traffic Inspector C. I. Fletcher. Thomas Arthur Wiseman, of Hautapu, was charged with failing to keep to the left on May 25th last. The Inspector stated he checked defendant for 11 miles. Wiseman was fined £2/10/- and 12/- costs and his driver’s license cancelled for 21 days. William David Taylor, taxi-driver, of Cambridge, was charged with excessive speed—exceeding 40 miles per hour and with inconsiderate driving. The charges arose out of Taylor’s driving on the Tamahere straight section of the Hamilton main road. He was travelling much beyond the restricted speed of 10 to 15 miles per hour with the result that he caused annoyance to 'Other users of the road when his vehicle sprayed them with mud. The Inspector stated he checked Taylor’s car for a distance of 21 miles. He urged that more notice be taken by some motorists of the warning signs, especially on this main highway whilst under reconstruction. On the speeding charge Taylor was fined £2 and on the inconsiderate driving, £2/10/- and costs. His driver’s license was suspended for 14 days. The offences occurred on June 18. Edward Buckland Firth, of Hamilton, was charged with exceeding the speed limit of 40 miles per hour and with having no warrant of fitness for his vehicle. On the first charge he was fined £3 and costs 10/-; and a fine of 10/- and 10/- costs was the penalty for no warrant of fitness. The offences occurred on July 3. For failing to yield the right-of-way at the intersection of Duke and "Victoria Streets on June 6 last, Mrs Tuhi Mana, of Maungatautari, was fined £2 and cost 15/-. The charge followed an accident in which defendant was involved, r/ Robert Nieholls, of Cambridge, had two "charges against him for operating a vehicle dangerously loaded and with failing to move a slippery substance from the road on May 31 last. It appeared that defendant firas carting refuse ifrom fish shops in Hamilton . to. the boiling down works at Cambridge. The refuse was apparently insecurely loaded, for one drum fell off the lorry and for three hours was left on the road and right

opposite the football grounds at Victoria Road. It was during the period - that football was being played and there were many people about. The refuse had an offensive smelj. On the charge of dangerous load-

ing Nieholls was fined £1 and costs ; 10/-; but on the failing to remove the

refuse he was fined £3 and costs 10/-. Lawrence Philip Otto, a young man, of Rotorua, had five charges against

him in connection with a motor cycle. It was found unregistered, had defective lights, no driver’s license, no

warrant of fitness and a defective silencer. It appeared that Otto, in company with another young man, travelled from Rotorua to Hamilton on this machine and was apprehended at Karapiro on the way back to Rotorua. On each of the charges he was fined 10/- and costs. ' Bruce Francis Pollock, of Rotorua, was fined 10/- and costs for riding his motor cycle without a light.