SPEED AT KAIWARRA
MOTORIST'S NOVEL EXCUSE
A novel excuse was advanced by Cyril lanner, a solicitor, who pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court yesterday afternoon to a charge of exceeding the speed limit at Kaiwarra.
. He stated that a speed of thirty miles an hour was allowed along the Hutt road as _far as the. fifteen-mile area through which the railway line passes, and that it was impossible for a motorist to halve his speed m the width of the warning signboard. So long, he claimed, as a d?YZ r .> on reaching the post at a speed ot thirty miles an hour, took reasonable steps to slow up he was not breaking the spirit of the. bylaw. There was a distance of 300 yards between the post and the railway line, and although he admitted that he actually passed the not-ice-boards allowed a speed of fifteen miles miles an hour, there was ample time for mm to take proper precautions before crossing the line. j "There are lots of things we motorists don t know," added Mr. Tanner. "We only nnd them out by experience." For instance, ho asked, why was it that the not-ice-boards allowed, a speed of fifteen milles when the bylaw said twelve miles? A bylaw that was not meant' to bo obeyed should not be in existence ' Messrs. R. W. Burbidge and W. I. Clark, J.P. s, imposed a fine of £1 and costs.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 71, 21 September 1927, Page 7
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238SPEED AT KAIWARRA Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 71, 21 September 1927, Page 7
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