GERMAN POLICE RESTRICTIONS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 9, 10 July 1909, Page 13

GERMAN POLICE RESTRICTIONS.

CITIZEN FRITZ'S INADVER- I TENGES. NINETEEN PENALTIES IN ONE DAY! Police fines to the amount of £500,000 are annually inflicted in Germany. To explain how this large sum is accumulated, the Munich humorous journal Jugend enumerates the misdemeanours committed in a single day by a respectable tradesman, costing him £6 7s, and a week's imprisonment. On lising in the morning he opens the window. The window is violently blown back by the wind, breaking the glass, which falls into the street. Two shillings fine. While at breakfast he fills in the necessary forms to report to the polickthat he had engaged__a maidservant a \veek previously. For not having reported her within the specified Lime of three days (5s fine). On his way to business he runs .after a tramway car. For jumping on to the car while in motion (ss). His goods are so effectively displayed in his shop windows that an obstruction is caused by the crowd in the street (10s fine). , His wmdow-dresser had displayed some articles in such a manner that the merchant's Christian name on tho signboard was hidden (5s fine). A.t noon he returns by railway and loses his season ticket (6s fine). He is awakened from an after-dinner nap by the Government inspector of the Old-age Pension and Insurance Department, to whom he has to produce the insurance card of his servant. He has affixed all the adhesive stampo correctly, but has forgotten to cancel them (10s fine). Then he receives a visit from a constable, who informs him that his child was vaccinated two days after the regulation time (£1 fine). Cycling back to business, he is stopped by a constable for having forgotten his cycle-cafd (3s). He is stopped again for riding too fast (3s). A third constable stops him for riding through a street not open to cyclists (3s). A fourth stops him for not sounding hi/3 bell properly (3s). A fifth, because he had no brake (3s). A sixth, for having removed his feet from the pedals (3s). By a seventh constable he is stopped for not holding the handlebars (3s). lie returns home from business in the twilight, and is reported for having no light (3s). After supner ht- plays piquet with his wife, using cards which do not bear the imperial duty i.tamp (30s fine). Having omitted to appear at the drill ! of the fire brigade (10s), he retires to bed tired out, and forgets to draw the "blind of his bedroom window (one week's ihnprisonment).

The second par'u of the Statistics of 'Now Zealand for 1908 —trade and interchange—is to hand from the Regis-itrar-Geueral. It contains 230 foolscap 'pages of closely-printed tables.