Supreme Court LIGHTS VALID
Decision By Judge
The traffic lights maintained at the Fehdalton roadMemorial avenue junction by the Waimairi County Council are valid and authorised by law, Mr Justice Wilson has held in a case stated to the Supreme Court. The case stated was between a Transport Department officer, Vernon Thompson D’Arcy Brain, and Gilbert Alexander Glaussiuss, who had been charged with failing to observe the traffic lights on January 31. Glausiuss pleaded not guilty in the Magistrate's Court on June 9, when his counsel (Mr A. Hearn) submitted that no offence had been committed, because the traffic lights were not authorised by law—upon which the Magistrate stated a case to the Supreme Court for decision.
In his judgment, his Honour, after traversing the legal argument put forward by Mr Hearn, and counter-argument by Mr C. M. Roper, for the Crown, said that he found nothing in the Transport Act, 1949, or the Traffic Regulations, 1956, making it unlawful for the Waimairi County Council to erect and maintain the traffic lights. He found, said his Honour, that they were valid under powers conferred on the county by section 191 of the Counties Act, 1956.
His Honour made no order as to costs.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30841, 28 August 1965, Page 20
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