IN THE COURTS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10307, 17 January 1927, Page 6

IN THE COURTS

OV'ER THE LIMLT. :•/TAT BEYER FINED EO • S REELING. 'jx'-ding up Gladstone Ro id u ith .■ speedometer alleged ro he regisi : ng over 30 miles an hour led to barge being heard against Cl aries Foster before Mr E. 1 . LevS.M. on Saturday, 'idle charge -* f ’riving in a manner which *-I,t luive been dangerous to the • h . Mr L. T. Ba.rnard appeared the defendant cud Serge. iempsoy .■.carted. hegt. Dempsey -aid C\.n-.table n-t-oose, >ta:u-in ; neer the Record ■ _in Hou-i in Gladstone Road, saw • mi Hat approaching frem the di--i. ~f the Rost Oiheg. He was king ut the rate of between 3i) ’.die— an bun'. In respeu.-e to g!); l from the constable, he pullur, some distance further on. being questioned deteudani said wi.s travelling at only about 17

: c ; die- an hour, if; JLiruard submitted that it had been proved that defendant was ing in a manner which might v keen dangerous to the public. ■ that could be proved against him . ■ that lie was exceeding the speed •t. Foster's business as a meat ■.vi made it necessary for him to tin time wherever possible. T'l Magistrate said that the fact ■ : defendant had crossed the inter:i,,n of Colulen Street travelling at rate of speed had to be "con-,-n d. '[’hero would have been no ,:i • for a car coining down L'obden It did not seem to be a very ■ rase. however, and defendant bv fined to and costs. BILGED BREAKING AND ENTERING. AICIKLAND, Jan. 15. inset men were caught on business . :es between 3 and 5 o'clock this ruing. Later Harry Collins, 43, . -aman, and George Charles Wnteri, of), wore remanded on a charge •reeking and entering a gurustore, h'i.'ai'lcs Maurice Collins on one of ~;.r and entering a butcher’s n n.l stealing monev.

i r ß SERIDESI.Y ’INJLRI.D B i CAR. ALCKI.AND, Jan. 1-3. In- Lmi Sharp, 0, whose parents re- • in Rotorua, received severe head r ; - s througli being knocked down a. motor car in View road. Ylt. •r, last evening. Du being ae.mittc hospital an operation was per;r..'d and *at It a. in. to-day the , J was in a critical condition. DROPPED DEAD. PAHL\TCA, Jan. 15. Ydiiam James Poster. 70, a resit of Baliancc for 33 years, dropdead at his home yesterday, while aged in pushing a ear out of a