SPEED LIMIT

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 42, 18 February 1918, Page 2

SPEED LIMIT

TWO APPEALS ALLOWED.

A reserved judgment of Mr. Justiqe Chapman in respect to two appeals against convictions registered in the Magistrate's Court, in regard to motorists." who had exceeded* the speed limit, was delivered in the Supreme Court this morning by the Registrar (Mr. W. AHawkins). ' ■■ ■

The first cage was an appeal from a conviction for driving a motor-oar beyond the speed, limit allowed by. the Petone Borough Council's by-law?. XKomas Inglis was the appellant, and' was represented by Mr.. M. Myers., Mr. B. 0. Kirk appeared for the Petone Borough. The Justices who, had entered the conviction had held that the allowance approximately of five and a-j half minutes in which a car' is allowed to pass through the borough on the Hutt-rqad is not an unreasonable limit. His Honour held that there was quite enough to show that the limit was unreasonably sweeping in its effect, include ,ing, as it does, streets where there in, practically speaking,' no traffic beyond the ordinary "visits of "tradesmen's carts. In the second appeal, by Jtenrieth M'Bean Stewprt, against a decision in regard to his alleged breach, of the Greytown Borough by-laws/ his Honour said there was no essential difference between the two oases, but perhaps the objection was more accentuated hy the case of Qreytown. The speed limit was 12 miles an hour without modification. By raising the limit to 20 miles an hour a wayfarer might be enabled to gain tiirqe minutes, in passing through by the main street. The application 'of thig speed limit to all streets at all times rendered the by-law unreasonable, in his Honour's opinion- . .' ■ , In each cast the appeal was allowed, with £6 6s costs. ■