STREET TRAFFIC

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1832, 17 April 1907, Page 64

STREET TRAFFIC

AN UNREASONABLE BY-LAW. r- DUNEDIN, April 5. A charge was preferred against Charles Alexander Shiel this morning of having ridden a motor bicycle across tho intersection of Princes street and Moray place at more than a walking pace. Defendant’s counsel (Mr Macassey) put it to Mr Graham, S.M., that this by-law was unreasonable. The Magistrate concurred in this . view. The by-law was meant, he said, to apply to vehicles coming from a cross street into a main street, and not to pull up a vehicle in Princes street at every corner. That would mean stopping the whole traffic. On account of its vagueness the by-law was ultra vires, and the case would be dismissed. His Worship added, however, that he had no sympathy with reckless riders of motors, who brought motoring into disrepute, and if any of these came before him he would deal as severely as possible with them. Mr Macassey offered to call evidence as to the speed a motor could go at, and as to the fact that defendant was not a fast rider. This was not allowed, the case being decided without reference to the facts.