AN OLD BYLAW
SCARING OF HORSES
CHARGES DISMISSED
(By I'elesrraph.—Press Association.) I CI-IKISTCHURCH, This Day. Under what, was described as an antiquated bylaw resurrected from dusty files, John J. Fitzpatriek was charged (his afternoon with displaying a calico sign on a van in Cathedral Square during New Zealand Shopping Week. Counsel for the defendant said that the bylaw dated back to the days of horse "vehicles, when it was an offence to scare horses by means of flapping calico signs. The information was dismissed, the Magistrate (Mr. E. D. Mosley) holding that the offence was trivial.
For the first time for five years the number of road deaths in Britain last year showed a decrease on the previous year. The figures were 6Gal in 1932, as' compared with 6691 in 1031. On the other hnml, the number of non-fatal accidents had increased. | Seven men are employed all the year j round cleaning the London statues, of, which, there are eighty-eight maintained by the Office of Works.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 124, 29 May 1933, Page 8
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166AN OLD BYLAW Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 124, 29 May 1933, Page 8
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