NOT RESPONSIBLE

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 260, 30 July 1937, Page 6

NOT RESPONSIBLE

Driver Who Took Blame For Another Earl William Johnson, motor salesman, assumed responsibility for the breach, according to Inspector G. A.' Booth, who prosecuted him in the Magistrate’s Court. Petone, fot exceeding the speed limit, but Mr. H. P. Lawry, S.M., held that as Johnson was not driving the car concerned at the time of the offence or even in it he could not be held responsible. The ease was dismissed. Inspector Booth explained that the car was one bearing demonstration plates, but inquiries made afterward disclosed that Johnson was away at Miramar at the time the offence was committed on the Hutt Road. Some other salesman had taken the se't of plates for which Johnson was responsible and driven out to the Hutt. There were three salesmen out at. the Hutt that day, hut Johnson could not get any admission as to who was to blame, so he accepted responsibility himself. He was responsible to his firm for the plates wherever he happened to be. Mr. Lawry said Johnson could not possibly be convicted. The actual driver could be charged if he were found.