LORRY DRIVERS' HOURS
WARNING- BY MAGISTRATE EMPLOYER FINED (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. A mnnboT of serious accidents have ocurred because lorrv drivers have been working such long flours that they are not. as vigilant as they should be, said the magistrate, Mr. i'.. D. Mosley, in the Police Court to-day when what was slated to he the first prosecution of the kind was before him, one of permitting an employee to drive more than 11 hours in 'any 24. It was brought by the Main Highways Board against Walter John Lankey, of Dannevirke.
Mr. .Mosley said that in his opinion s'fricf enforcement ol tho regulation was necessary. It was impossible for a man to he engaged for 16 hours, as suggested iu this case, without experiencing weariness, which should uot be present in a driver and especially one who had control of a heavy vehicle. Any future cases would have' to he dealt with by means of a severe penalty, A line of £l, and costs, was imposed.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19334, 26 May 1937, Page 15
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170LORRY DRIVERS' HOURS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19334, 26 May 1937, Page 15
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