SPEED AT INTERSECTIONS
AN "UNREASONABLE" BY-LAW
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. In his reserved judgment in the case in which Ernest Bolton and Stanley Acton Hunt were charged with speeding, Mr. .Salmon, S.M., declared that the by. Jaw restricting the speeding of traffic at intersections to eight miles per hour, w»s rareasohaWy sweeping in its effect, and, therefore, unreasonable and invalid. Ho said thelo were several intersections on the'main south road where there Would be extreme difficulty for a motorist observing the speed limit of 20 miles per hour to slow d°wn to eight miles 'an hour at all intersections amd junctions. To use the words of the witnesses, "they would have to use their discretion, otherwise traffic could not get along there, and the court would always be filled. His Worship, holding that in thtl particular case, before the court the by-law was_ unreasonable, said his findjn_ was a bit local and only applied to a particular intersection. The by-law was reasonable irl the case of intersections and junctions involving a largo amount of traffic.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16211, 8 December 1926, Page 12
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