“But I’m a Ratepayer*...” The police probably have many quiet chuckles (says the Southland News) at the excuses made by people found breaking the laws. The explanation given by an elderly man as to why he was riding a bicycle on the footpath in Liddel street, Invercargill, recently, had its amusing side. The offender strongly pointed out that he was a ratepayer and that, as such, he was entitled to ride on the footpath if he wished to. At a sitting of the Magistrate’s Court later he was convinced that that was not the case.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 October 1946, Page 4
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