HOOTERS.
VIRTUES AND SHORTCOMINGS,
In a case heard at Devon Assizes, arising out of a collision between a car and a motor cycle, in -which the motor cyclist claimed damages for personal injury, the defendant said he sounded his horn, but plaintiff said he did not hear it. The? judge, Mr. Justice Eowlatt, thereupon remarked: "I hear a good many of these cases, and I have come to the conclusion that hooters are very little good. I make a point always of listening to hooters to see how far I can hear them, whether there is an accident -or not. When I am in a big car it is very seldom that I get much assistance from another person's hooter. The ear seems to get dulled to the sound, or a wall, or a bank, stops it. A hooter may be a very good thing to give warning of approach on a
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 184, 6 August 1925, Page 18 (Supplement)
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152HOOTERS. Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 184, 6 August 1925, Page 18 (Supplement)
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