TRAFFIC BREACHES

Waikato Times, Volume 130, Issue 21689, 27 March 1942, Page 2

TRAFFIC BREACHES

MOTORISTS IN COURT A fine of £2 and costs was imposed by Mr W. H. Freeman, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, Hamilton, today j on Colin George Harrison, on a j charge of driving without due care j and attention. It was explained by 1 the police that defendant, who was driving a truck, cut the corner of ! Collingwood Street so sharply that j a bottle of cordial flew off the j vehicle and broke among pedestrians j on the footpath. Thomas James Balfour Mason, on | charges of cutting a corner and with ! having no warrant of fitness for his ! car, was fined £1 and 10s on the ! respective counts. Walton Gives £6 a Head A very fine effort in the “Bonds for BomU rs” campaign is being made by the people in the Walton district. On the average, £6 a head of population has been received to date. By 1 p.m. today £1450 had been received and further contributions were expected. A.R.P. Lectures The Waikato Centre of the New Zealand Red Cross Society is holding a one-day full course of instruction in air raid precautions in the Alexandra Hall, Hamilton, on Saturday. The course will begin at 12.30 p.m. and continue until 9 p.m., with , breaks in the afternoon and between : 6 and 7 p.m. Mr G. T. Paterson and Mr A. K. Fenwick, the principal A.R.P. lecturers in Auckland, will give the lectures. The society has extended an invitation to all interested to a —vid and has arranged for the free admission of all E.P.S. workers wearing their armlets.