RESERVED JUDGMENT.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20076, 4 November 1930, Page 3

RESERVED JUDGMENT.

PARKING REGULATIONS FOR TAXIS. Reserved judgment in a traffic charge against a taxi driver was given in the Magistrate's Court yesterday by Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M. The case was one in which Clifford Pavitt was charged that, when his vehicle was not engaged, he did not take up his station on a duly appointed stand, and. further, that he left a taxi in one place in Hereford street for a period longer than 10 ■ minutes. Mr D W Russell appeared for defendant, and Mr R. J. Loughnan for -the City Council, who had proseCU, rho City Council had on September 30th, 1930, said the Magistrate, adopted certain regulations regulating the 'number of vehicles that could stand on different taxi stands. These came into force on Oo|o^ r 1930- In his opinion the City Council had ample power to make the regulation which the defendant had sought to iraoeach. Defendant would be convicted. but as counsel had intimated that the information had been laid with the object of testing the validity of the regulations, no penalty would be inflicted and the department would be ordered to pay the costs of Court. At the original hearing, on October 16th. Mr Loughwan appeared for the City Council, and Mr F. D. Sargent for the defendant, when Mif Sargent contended that the regulations wh,ch the Council had made .mpo.=ed a hardship on taxi drivers as there were more taxis than stands.