SPEEDING MOTOR LORRIES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 258, 1 November 1932, Page 5

SPEEDING MOTOR LORRIES

SEVERAL DRIVERS FINED SOME UNPAID LICENSES Several motor lorry drivers were lined in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday for not having their motor vehicles correctly licensed or for exceeding the maximum speed allowed for their respective vehicles. Mr F. J. Blake appeared for the Wanganui County Council, evidence being given by Inspector E. Wilson. L. W. Patchett was fined £3 and ordered to pay 10s costs and 10s 6d solocitor’s foe for driving a motorlorry on the Marangai flat at 40 miles an hour when the maximum allowed was 15 miles an hour. G. Battison, said the inspector, drove a motor lorry at 37| miles an hour, when the maximum was 25 miles an hour. He was fined £2, being also ordered to pay 10s Court costs and 10s 6d soliictor’s fee. W. S. Cameron was fined £2 and ordered to pay 10s Court costs and 10s fid solicitor’s fee for driving a lorry at 36| miles an hour, when the maximum allowed was 20 miles an hour. F. Freeman was fined a similar amount, his speed being 27| miles an hour when he should not have exceeded 20 miles an hour. Because he had not renewed his heavy traffic license when he had been using his motor lorry, J. H. Jellyman was convicted and ordered to pay 10s Court costs and solicitor’s fee 10s 6d. Jellyman said that he had been put to considerable expense because of necessary engine repairs and had also been obliged to employ extra labour. F. L. Farr, of Palmerston North, was ordered to pay 10s Court costs and 10s fid solicitor’s fee for using an unlicensed motor-lorry, a conviction being entered against him with no fine. Farr explained that he had been working on a job expecting to finish it by the end of the month, but rain had held up the work and he had thus been forced to do eight hours’ work in the next month after the license had run ' out. i A. C. Tasker was fined £1 and I ordered to pay 10s Court costs and 10s fid solicitor’s fee for using an unlicensed heavy motor vehicle. “As a matter of fact the engine did not do very much damage, but the engineer wants to know where traction engines are,” said Inspector Wilson, when H. N. Wilson was fined £5 and ordered to pay 12s Court costs and 10s fid solicitor’s fee for driving a traction engine along country roads without first obtaining the written consent of the Wanganui county engineer. Inspector Wilson said that the traction engine had weighed 12 tons and had been driven from Wangaehu along the main Wanganui to Wellington road, and then along the river bank road up to Parikino. The wheels had cleats on them, and they had marked the road in such a manner that he had been able to trace the engine all the way. Had application been made to the engineer to drive the engine along county roads, it would have probably had to follow the Warrengate Road and No. 2 Line. ___