TRAFFIC OFFENCES.

Waikato Times, Volume 117, Issue 19598, 10 June 1935, Page 8

TRAFFIC OFFENCES.

"SPEED TRAP” VICTIMS.

■MOTORISTS IN COURT.

“A DANGEROUS CORNER.”

Two “speed traps” operated by Traffic Inspectors W. H. Roy and L. Denz, inspectors to the Hamilton Borough Council were responsible for a number of motorists appearing in the Magistrate’s Court, Hamilton, to-day, •before Messrs S. L. Paterson, S.M-, and G. K. Sinclair, J.P., charged with ■speeding across intersections. The first “trap" was a marked quartermile in Naylor Street, the intersection of Galloway Street coming in the quarter-mile, while the other “trap” was along Norton Road over the Rostrevor and King Streets intersections. “This is a dangerous corner and too many accidents have occurred at this point,” commented Mr Paterson in fining S. Holmes £2 and costs for travelling across the intersection of Naylor and Galloway Streets at aO.IB miles per hour. George Kruse (32.85 m.p.h.), A. W. Marshall (33.48 m.p.h.), A. H. Bales (33.09 m.p.h.), Mrs M. Valder (32.12 ■m.p.h.), Miss 'Cecille Chitty (32.75 m.p.h.) and J. A. Boyes (36.59 m.p.h.) were fined £1 and costs for speeding across the same intersection in their motor cars while a motor-cyclist, A. R. Burn was fined £1 10s and costs for a similar offence. He was travelling at 35.91 m.p.h. For speeding across the Norton Road —■Rostrevor Street intersection R. W. Butcher (35-72 m.p.h.), A. Grange (35.91 m.p.h.) and J. Ironmonger (34.88 m.p.h.) were fined £1 and costs and S. F. Sanders (34.61 m.p.h.), who produced a certificate showing that his speedometer was registering incorrectly, was fined 10s and costs. Prosecuted by Traffic Inspector R. Metcalf, W. Grey was fined 10s and costs for driving a motor-car without a motor driver’s licence and Wong Hop, a Chinese fruiterer, was fined £2 and costs for operating a heavy traffic vehicle without a licence. Leonard Augustus Clark was ordered to pay the costs of the prosecution when he appeared on a charge of operating a lorry without a heavy traffic licence. Traffic Inspector Roy prosecuted. Defendant explained that be had borrowed the truck and did not know a licence was required.