Legal phraseology is, to the lay mind, unnecessarily wordy, but perhaps to those responsible for the framing of the laws such construction is necessary. At the Palmorston North CouTt a gem was unearthed in tho borough bylaws dealing with motor traffic regulation, sayi the Daily Times. A man was arraigned for failing to have a silencer attached to his motor-cycle. The charge sheet read as follows:—"Being the driver of a motor-cycle did allow tho exhaust gases from the migine of the said motor-cycle to escape into the atmosphere without first passing the said'gases through a silencer or other contrivance for reducing as far as practicable the noise caused by the escape of the said's;ases, contrary to bylaw 228 of the borough of JPaJnwston North."
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Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 82, 7 April 1921, Page 8
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124Untitled Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 82, 7 April 1921, Page 8
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