TRAFFIC HELD UP
HORSEMAN AND MOTORIST BOTH REFUSE TO GIVE WAY POLICE ASSISTANCE CALLED [liv TELKCIIAI'H —OWN CORKESPONDKNt] ■ WHANGAREI, Thursday When a man on horseback and a motor-car both commenced to cross a one-way bridge on the main "Wlia-ngarei-Auckland highway, near the Waipu wharf, neither would give way to the'other. A heated argument took place, but both remained adamant. As it was the middle of the day. when traffic is fairly considerable, it was not long before there was a lino of vehicles held up on each side of the hfidgp. As there appeared to be no sign of the argument terminating or of either of the parties concerned taking notice of the entreaties of the increasing stream of waiting motorists for them to .get off the bridge, one of the onlookers -telephoned from a near by house for police assistance. Constable A. J?. Rimmer, of Waipu, arrived on the scene and ordered the motorist and horseman off the bridge, and thus allowed the traffic to proceed, with many black looks thrown at the offenders.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22794, 30 July 1937, Page 10
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