DRIVING A CAR
MAGISTRATE’S DEFINITION. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, April 29. ‘•‘Driving means the manipulation of the machinery which propels the car, steers the car, and stops the car, said the Magistrate, Mr E. D. Mosley, in tho Court to-day. “Any one of these alone is insufficient, to designate drivlnpn his advice defendant had pleaded not guilty to driving without due care and attention, having left a lorry insecurely parked so that it had crossed Cuba Street and run into a telephone box. , , ~ The police explained that the old regulations provided tor an offence of insecure parking, but no provision was actually laid down in the new regulations ; but they proposed to prove that the offence came under tho heading of driving without due care and attention. . After the case was argued the Magistrate held that it was in the manipulation of machinery to stop the car that defendant was careless, and therefore he found him guilty. Defendant was convicted and ordered to pay costs.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 127, 30 April 1937, Page 2
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