MOTOR REGULATIONS.
THE OFF-SIDE RULE. LEGAL TECHNICALITY SUCCEEDS. (Per United Press Association.) HAWERA, August 30. In a reserved decision to-day, Mr J. S. Barton, S.M., upheld a technicality raised by Mr A. A. Stewart, counsel for the defendant, on a charge of failing to Observe the off-side rule requiring motor drivers to give way at street intersections to traffic approaching from the right. Counsel’s contention was that as the regulation specifically refers to intersections not under the control of a traffic officer in charge must be dismissed in the absence of proof by the prosecution that the intersection was not so controlled. The magistrate explained that it was open to the prosecution to negative that condition by inserting in the information such words as—“ the intersection not being controlled by a traffic officer ” —-but otherwise proof of the absence of control was necessary. The information would be dismissed.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20501, 31 August 1928, Page 7
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