ROPE ACROSS ROAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 99, 29 April 1933, Page 13

ROPE ACROSS ROAD.

OBSTRUCTION CHARGE FAILS,

An unusual charge was brought | against two men, Alan Cordon Cutten and Thomas McKay in the Police Court yesterday, both being charged with obstructing the public highway. Mr. Allan Moody appeared for both defendants, who pieaded not pruiltv. _ The evidence brought by the police showed that a young' man while riding a cycle in Xarrow Xeck at 9,.>0 p.m. on March 15, collided with a rope stretched across the roadway and was slightly injured. The cyclist admitted that he had no light. The rope was attached by the defendants to a motor lori}, winch was used to pull a boat up from the beach. ]\[ r . Moody submitted that it had not been shown that either defendant had wilfully or unlawfully obstructed. Both had kept a look out for traiiic and if the cyclist had had a light on his machine thev would have seen him in time to warn him of the rope. "Jf a man turns his motor car round oil the road he is obstructing, but that could not be shown as being unlawful, or creating an obstruction by the Act under which these two men are charged," said Mr. W. R. McKen, S.M. The charges against both men were dismissed.