NO LICENSE.

Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18407, 14 August 1931, Page 6

NO LICENSE.

KAIPAKI FARMER FINED. ‘REGULATIONS WRONGLY FRAMED’ Protesting that the law should be altered to permit farmers to use heavy lorries on the roads in connection with their farming operations without the necessity for a heavy Ira file license, Lovi Cowley, farmer, Kaipaki, defended a prosecution brought against him at Hamilton to-day, for using his heavy lorry without possessing such a license. Traffic Inspector W. Nicholson said he recently came upon Cowley with his lorry, which weighed over two tons, on the main highway between Hamilton and Te Awamulu. When asked to produce his license, Cowley said he had not renewed II and did not intend to. The law. said the inspector, required that a heavy traffic license must 1)0 taken out for all vehicles weighing over two tons.

Defendant said tie paid between £io and £5O in rales annuillt Io the County Council, and lie did not think farmers should be called upon Io pay a heavy traffic license fee when using their lorries in connection with their farming operations. it was never intended that they should. Th? regulations had been wrongly framed and should lie altered. The) were only intended Io apply to regular coinine re la 1 traffic. His W been inclined Io regard the breach lightly, as merely that of an oversight on the part of a farmer. but il would seem from defendant > own story that I lie had defied tin* regulations because lie considered they should not apply |to farmers. He would bo lined 40s and costs.