CYCLISTS FINED
RODE MACHINES ON FOOTPATH There was a seqpel to a watch kept on the Claudelands side of the railway bridge last month when Inspector W. E. Nicholson, of the borough council’s traffic staff, brought a number of prosecutions in the Magistrate’s Court, Hamilton yesterday morning. Nine cyclists were charged with riding their machines either on the lower or upper footpath leading from the bridge to River Road. In each case Mr S, L. Paterson, S.M., inflicted fines of 10s and costs. Inspector Nicholson told the Court that the offence was a breach of a Government Railway by-law. The cyclists fined were Phyllis E. Dewhirst, Mervyn Jones, Neils Julius Hansen, Mary fttranger, Nancy Haig, Allan Stewart, Alfred Edward Morris, Ronald Kirby and Colin Adolph. Six boys and six girls were dealt with for similar offences in the Children’s Court, being admonished and discharged.
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Waikato Times, Volume 195, Issue 22508, 17 November 1944, Page 2
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