Fined for Driving Car Over Fire Hose
“BLINDED BY SUN.” A lady driver, Elsie Louisa White, was charged in the Palmerston North. Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning with driving over a fire hose. Ihe offence, which was admitted, occuired in Broadway Avenue when the brigade was quelling an outbreak at the rear of the old Zealandia hall premises. Defendant’s husband, who appeared on her behalf, said that his wife had been driving up Broadway Avenue and had been blinded by the sun. She had not seen any fire engine or a crowd and tho first sign of the fire hose she had perceived, was tho water squirting from a hydrant. A policeman had suddenly appeared and she had pulled up right on the hose. Sergeant Hill: She should not have been driving blind.
The Magistrate remarked that the sun should not havo prevented defendant seeing the fire hose on tho ground and imposed a fine of 10s with similar costs.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7170, 18 March 1930, Page 5
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159Fined for Driving Car Over Fire Hose Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7170, 18 March 1930, Page 5
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