Ruling On Traffic Lights Awaited

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30855, 14 September 1965, Page 3

Ruling On Traffic Lights Awaited

(New Zealand Press Association >

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A traffic jam is bi land Magistrate’s Cou offences at traffic light until later this month i

The cause of the jam in the Auckland courts and in courts throughout the country is a submission in the Supreme Court in Christchurch last month that there is no legal authority for traffic lights. Until Mr Justice Wilson delivers his reserved decision on the matter no case involving traffic lights can go ahead. The acting Senior Magistrate in Auckland, Mr H. Jenner Wily, said tonight that a substantial list of adjourned traffic light cases had been building up since August. “All the days at the end of this month are now filled and we are adjourning cases until October,” he said.

“There is an enormous number adjourned until the end of the month.”

The deputy Auckland traffic superintendent, Mr R. E. Barnes, said today that Auckland City Council traffic officers would continue to issue tickets for offences in relation to traffic lights, and summonses for these would still be served. “As each case comes before

.AND, September 13. uilding up in the Auckirt. All cases involving ts are being adjourned and early in October.

the Court, we will ask for an adjournment for a month,” he said. Mr Barnes said the Traffic Department would continue with its policy until a decision was given.