MOTOR CYCLIST FINED

Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1928, 30 October 1926, Page 5

MOTOR CYCLIST FINED

FOR AN OPEN CUT-OUT. , “This kind of thing is scandalous and must be put a stop to,” declared Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., with emphasis, in fining a youth named Ralph William Pickard, shop assistant, £5 and costs at the Hamilton Court, on Thursday, for riding a motor cycle without an efficient silencer attached. Senior-Sergeant Sweeney told the Court that there had been numerous complaints from residents of the Ohaupo Road and from the hospital authorities of the row made by mbtor cycles travelling with their cut-outs open. On the afternoon in question- 1 the nurses who had been on night duty were unable to sleep owing to the row made by Pickard’s machine. The information was laid by Mr D. Seymour, solicitor, who stated that owing to the constant repetition of the terrific din of this motor cycle travelling backwards and forwards in the neighbourhood, he had considered it his duty to bring the matter to the notice of the police. His Worship commended the action of a local solicitor who faced the unpleasant situation of laying an information in the case. His Worship added that it was scandalous that this sort of thing should go on, especially in the vicinity of a hospital. He had issued warnings before against running motor cycles with open cut-outs, which, apparently, had not been heeded, and an example would have to he made of defendant in the present case. Pickard would be fined £5 and ordered to pay the costs £1 9s.