BREACHES OF BY-LAWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXX, Issue 14579, 2 June 1916, Page 5

BREACHES OF BY-LAWS.

MOTOR CARS AND TROOP TRAINS

OFFENDERS I>KALT WITH

Several cases for breaches of the. borough by-laws were dealt with 'by -Mr !.,."<;. Ix'eid. !S..M V at the Masterton Police Court this morning.

John Watson, charge I with riding a btcvele at night without a light, i'orwardod a letter to say lie, had attended choir practice at Lnnsdowi.e church, and had to attend another meeting at the Foresters' Hall. As it was uiounlitrht when he started he did not use a Constable Ferj.vis.ni said it was not moonlight wht.'u he met W.itson. IVfondaut was convicted and discharged.

Michael Ford pleaded guilty to a ebarue of driving a motor- e:tr at a furious rate o\' speed aa I aiso with failiiii: , to sound his met.o- norn. Sergeant Miller said that, the ui.lVr-v.-e was .•(.iti.mitted on an evening when a troop train arrived, and the cars were racing to vet, a second load ot.' passengers. The cars were a great s< urce o< danger to people who used I'iae street. Ou tho charge of driving at an excessive speed, defendant was lined -"is and 7s costs, and for failing lo sound his n.otor horn hf wa-s also lined ."is and 7s costs.

IJenrv Cole was also charged with driving a car at an excessive rate of speed, and with not sounding his horn, on the same occ.-isiou as the previous defendant. Mr O. Tragnell appeared for defendant.

Constable Dunphy said thai on the niijht. of the iMth he took up a pos ; ti(.n in '.'"me street near the intersection of Timothy street. Cole and others were. travelling at about _"> miles an hour, and he did not sound his horn. 'IM-re were about twelve cars, and Mr Cole was among the Might. Witness had an idea of who some of the other drivers were, but he could not swear to them. He pi. -ked tip Cole's number because it was well lit up.

Henry M. Cole said- that he fame down Pine street with a load of soldiers at about iifteeu to twenty miles an hour. Ho could not say whether he sounded his horn at the inverse.lion of Timothy street. His Worship said there did not seem to lie any doubt about tho facts. A lino of os and costs in each caso would be imposed as a warning. John Ewing pleaded not guilty to a charge of driving a ear along Queen street, at an excessive speed on Saturday morning. Constable I'lullii s s:iid (hat defendant drov-v -J.vwii Queen street, p:ist the intersection of I , ark street, at about twenty miles an hour, on Saturday morning. Defendant, on oath, said' that he had nor been in the locality named by the constable on the Saturday morning. He had come from l'erry street and had not been past the lOmpire Hotel. He h;ul not been'near I'ark street.

Defendant was fined f>s ami costs c<