Shop Dummy’s Fate

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 174, 26 July 1939, Page 10

Shop Dummy’s Fate

{ The sight of a headless figure, immaculately dressed, lying half in and half out of a broken plate glass window caused not a few anxious moments to pedestrians in Queen Street, Auckland. A second glance, however, put fears at rest, for the figure was that of a tailor'* dummy’, which had become dislodged from its pedestal in the shop window and fallen heavily toward the street, amid a heap of splintered glass. Judgment of Speed. I “I would be prepared to say a car was travelling fast, but I would not be * prepared to state that speed in figures of miles per hour,” said Mr. Justice Northcroft in the Timaru Supreme Court when counsel was trying to get a witness to give the actual speed of a train after he had stated that it was travelling too fast under the conditions. “A witness can say whether a vehicle was travelling fast or slow in accordance with what he is accustomed to see,” his Honour added, 4 ’but tew people are competent to say just how fast in miles an hour it was travelling.”