SILENT HOURS
CLAIM FOR DAMAGES LONDON, Get. .8. The validity of the Minister of Transport's order, prohibiting tho sounding of motor horns between 11..T0 p.m. nnd 7 a.m., will bo tested in the courts. A man who was injured in an accident; during the “silence hours” is suing for damages, alleging that tho defendant was guilty of negligence in not giving an audible warning. The new regulation has not revoked the law requiring the sounding of a hooter or other instrument and plaintiff’s counsel will argue that a regulation cannot be revoked by implication if a subsequent regulation conflicts with it,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18529, 16 October 1934, Page 7
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101SILENT HOURS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18529, 16 October 1934, Page 7
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