SPEED OF MOTOR-CARS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 533, 14 June 1909, Page 5

SPEED OF MOTOR-CARS.

.:•■■'■ [i: : ... ■ ■ tor TiLEaßirii—srtciiL canuiwroNhiuif 1-...' :,■'■■',■'■ '■'-.., ■ Christchuroh, June la. ■.''.'A motor-car driver, named. Sidney F. Napperjjwho'rushed his car through the main street of [Afihburton ■ recently, at. (according to tho police evidence) the rate of over thirty miioa an hour, was fined £10 and ooste yesterday. The • information had been laid under ,'tne looal by-laws, and it was' : argiied ior tlie. defence that the by-laws were ultra vires inasmuoh.as.they professed to be -made..an- , dor tho Municipal Corporations Act, whereas they should liayo derived their authority so far as motor traffic was concerned from"uho Motor 'Regulation .-. Act. Tbo magistrate said that tho point had'been-raised in .other .cases before, and he had bold against the .motorist every, time, and, his decisions had not been.-appealed against. ■ A borough council had powor. to regulate tho speed of all vehicles in borough territory, irrdspectivo altogether of the Motor Regulation Act.: Tho caso ..before tho Court was a bad ono, for what-tho driver did was to race tho express train to-catch it at Hinds. He.must,' therefore, have been going at an excessive speed, for the express travelled at quito thirty, miles an hour. The offence was inexcusable.