SUPREME COURT Appeal Against Parking Conviction Dismissed

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27666, 24 May 1955, Page 15

SUPREME COURT Appeal Against Parking Conviction Dismissed

An appeal by Alvan Samuel Hollander against his conviction in the Magistrate’s Court on a charge of parking a motor-car in a prohibited area has been dismissed by Mr Justice McGregor. The appeal was heard in the Supreme Court on April 21 and the decision was reserved. Mr G. S. Brockett appeared for the appellant, and Mr W. R. Lascelles for the Christchurch City Council. “The appellant appeals from his conviction by .the Magistrate on an information that on March 24, 1954, at Christchurch being in charge of a car he parked it in High street in a part of the roadway where a notice is maintained by a controlling authority indicating that the parking of vehicles is prohibited.” said his Honour’s reserved judgment given in the Supreme Court yesterday. “The main facts are not in dispute.

It is admitted that the appellant parked his car parallel to the kerb on the east side of High street approximately 25 yards south of the corner of High street and Hereford street for a period from 11.25 to 11.55 a.m. It is further admitted that the City Council had erected and maintained two signs, one in High street on the easterly side on the first pole south of the Hereford street corner, and a second one on the same side of High street approximately three chains further south. It was between these two signs that the appellant had parked his car” The appellant claimed that the sign did not comply with the Traffic Sign Regulations but his Honour held that it did. “The appeal must therefore be dismissed and I allow to the respondent £lO 10s costs together with disbursements and witnesses expenses to be fixed by the Registrar,” said the judgment.