GARDEN PLACE DRIVER
PEDESTRIAN CROSSING OFFENCE THREAT OF MAXIMUM PENALTY “I am inclined to inflict the ’maximum penalty of £2O upon you but this time I will treat you the same as the other offenders. You will be convicted and fined £5,” said Mr S. L. Paterson S.M.. in the Magistrate’s Court, Hamilton, to-day when William P. J. G. Nesbit was charged with failure to give right of way at a pedestrian crossing. Nesbit is a driver engaged on the Garden Place Hill removal work. The prosecution was brought by Mr W. K. Nicholson, Chief Traffic Inspector of the Hamilton Borough Council. The evidence was that Nesbit passed a bus which had stopped to allow’ trian crossing and had passed over the zone. The woman was obliged to draw hack. Mr Paterson said defendant could have been further charged with overtaking another vehicle at a pedestrian crossing. Claude Stanley White was convicted and fined £5 and costs for a similar offence.'
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20784, 20 April 1939, Page 10
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