STREET TRAFFIC

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6176, 6 April 1907, Page 3

STREET TRAFFIC

AX UNREASONABLE BY-LAW. PRESS ASSOCIATION. DUNEDIN, April 5. A charge was preferred against Charles Alexander Shiel this morning of having ridden a motor'bicycle across tlie intersection of Princes street and Moray piano 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. Tho by-law was meant, lie said, to apply to vehicles coming from a cross street into a main street, and not to pull ii]) a vehicle in Princes street at every corner. That would mean stopping; tho whole traffic. On account of its vagueness the by-law was ultra vires, and tho case would be dismissed. Hjs Morsbip 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 Macassoy offered to call evidence as to tho 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.