PARKING OF CARS IN RICHMOND MAIN STREET

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 17 December 1937, Page 4

PARKING OF CARS IN RICHMOND MAIN STREET

ATTENTION DRAWN TO BY-LAW The first meeting of the Waimca Power Board in its new offices next to the Richmond Post Office was interrupted by a message from the police that a complaint had been received about members’ cars on the street. They would have to be moved from where they were parked outside the offices. Attention was drawn to the 20-minute parking bylaw in the borough. “It would be very sad if the members responsible were taken to gaol, leaving us without a quorum,” remarked the chairman (Mr H. E. Stephens) as the meeting waited for the absent members who had gone out in the pouring rain to move the cars. The Engineer remarked that there were only about half as many cars parked on the street this morning as there had been on other days recently. Board members were unfortunate that Board meeting day had been chosen for the enforcement of the law. A member: "The police are complaining, is he? Well, the best thing we can do is cut off his light.” “I think that a more cosmopolitan attitude could have been adopted,” remarked another member vaguely, as he returned after complying with the law.