EACH OTHER’S DUST
t Rival Service-Drivers ONE INCURS £1 FINE Dominion New Plymouth. April 30. A service car driver, Arthur Wyllie, was fined £1 and costs for failing to give way to another car behind, which car belonged to a rival motor firm, running between Auckland and New Plymouth. The magistrate said that all drivers, and especially service car drivers, must understand that their first duty to the travelling public was to carry them safely. If people came to the conclusion that drivers were not driving safely, people would not travel by service car. It was not for the man being passed to consider the reason why he was being overtaken, blit the regulation requiring him to give way had to be observed. The court hoped that the drivers in question would compose their differences, for if the practice complained of did not stop heavy fines would be to be inflicted.
Counsel claimed that there was “a whole history” behind the particular offence, the cars of the rival firms having “given each other their dust.”
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 182, 1 May 1931, Page 8
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