INEFFICIENT BRAKES.
WELLESLEY STREET INCIDENT
BUS OWNER FINED £5.
Judgment, was delivered by Mr. J, W. Poynton. S.M., yesterday in the t ase in which Joseph Rimmer, omnibus proprietor, was charged with being the driver oi an omnibus with inefficient brakes. Tho charge arose out of a recent incident in Wellesley Street, when defendant's bus ran backwards through the street and collided with a wall. Mr. Poynton said: —"The brakes were in a very had way, and defendant, as owner and controller of the car, was responsible. He raised the point that, being the owner and not the driver, he was not liable under the by-law. In a charge against two or more, accused, when it is shown that there are degrees of guilt, one being the doer of the act, and the other counselling or assisting him, it is not necessarv to bring separate charges for counselling, etc., under section 53 of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.'' Defendant was convicted and fined £5.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18891, 13 December 1924, Page 13
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