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Otago Witness, Issue 3942, 1 October 1929, Page 27

A somewhat unusual charge against the driver of a cart was dismissed, after the evidence had been heard, by Mr P. 11. Harper, S.M., in the Gisborne Poiice Court recently (says the Poverty Bay Herald). The defendant was Wong Chew (Mr J. Blair), who’ pleaded not guilty to a charge of failing to chain the wheel of his cart while it was left standing in the street. As the result of the defendant’s alleged omission, a small boy who climbed on to the cart and startled the horse, fell out on to the road and suffered slight injuries. After the evidence had been heard, Dlr Blair submitted that the information should be dismissed, as the evidence had not disclosed that the defendant was the required two yards distance from the eart at any stage of the proceedings. The magistrate dismissed the information, remarking that had it been shown that the defendant had been into a house to setve a customer the position would have been different.