DANGEROUS DRIVING

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XLVIII, Issue 6093, 9 April 1948, Page 2

DANGEROUS DRIVING

FINE IMPOSED ON MOTORCYCLIST OTHER TRAFFIC OFFENDERS Dangerous driving of a motorcycle on Beach Road resulted in Ronald Wilfred Furze being fined £3, with costs 10s, by Mr W. H. Freeman, S.M., at the monthly sitting of the Waihi Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Defendant, who pleaded guilty by letter, was stated by the traffic Inspector to have reached a speed of 60 miles an hour at an intersection. Losing a heavy motor vehicle fitted with iron-tyred wheels Qn a public road and so damaging the road resulted in Philip Williamson being fined £5, with costs £3 16s. For using an unlicensed tractor on a public road he was also fined £5, vith costs 12s. No warrant of fitness for a motortruck resulted in Gordon Francis Dean being fined £1 10s, with costs 10s The prosecution was brought by Inspector J. Paseoe, of the Traffic Department. For a similar offence, Hugh John Thomas McGahan, of Auckland, who pleaded guilty by letter in respect of a mqtor-car, was fined 10s and costs.

B.ice May Be Available Soon There is good news for curry and rice eaters in an announcement from the Rice Association of Australia that rice may soon be available in New Zealand. The association stales that, if the Australian Government should decide to put locally grown rice on the home market, the industry will endeavour to arrange shipments to this country also. At present, rice is withheld from both the Australian and New Zealand markets, except for small priority supplies to Asiatics and invalids. Most of the rice is sent to the Pacific Islands, Solomons, the phosphate group, New Guinea, and Papua, where it is needed for the sustenance of natives who have not brought their own rice fields back into cultivation.