MINISTER GRATEFUL
WEAKNESS IN REGULATIONS
POINTED OUT BY MAGISTRATE
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, September 6.
"The Magistrate has hit on an important question and the anomaly will be removed immediately by amending the, regulation," said the Minister of Transport (the Hon. R. Semple) in referring to a weakness in the new traffic regulations recently indicated by Mr. C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., during the hearing of a case in the Magistrate's Court at Auckland. •
According to the Magistrate, although the. regulation made it incumbent on the driver of a vehicle to carry a warrant of fitness, it did not require him to produce the warrant on demand by a duly constituted authority.
"I, am personally grateful to the Magistrate for pointing out this weakness," Mr. Semple added. "It is only when new regulations come under acid test in Court that weaknesses are found and a Magistrate who points these out is rendering good service to the country."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 59, 7 September 1937, Page 4
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