MOTORISTS FINED.
DRIVING AT EXCESSIVE SPEED,
(Pes United Phkss Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, May 13. Dr Talbot and another motor car owner wore oaeh fined £5' ajid costs to-day for I driving cars at a greater speed than eight miles m hour. The doctor eaid he was l V ®f eet ' miles a-n hour on the road at a time when there was hardly any traffic, and was driving e<trc'Jtilly. If the by-Jaw were to be strictly enforocd doctors would have to use a horse and. trap, which Vvpulii travel faster, Qjiq drjver said ho had sttn cabs coming and "going to the race 3 at 20 miles an hour, and many cab lwrsas in tho city could do a mile in three inmutcs.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14213, 14 May 1908, Page 5
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