ISSUING SUMMONSES
IMPROVEMENT SUGGESTED Visitors to New Zealand comment on the inefficient system of issuing - summonses for trivial motoring - offences. There is much to be said for the American tag system, with standardised fines for careless parking and kindred minor matters. The labour of tracing a motor through the post office by its number, interviewing the driver, and then issuing a summons, should be eliminated. The issue of summonses is being restricted in Australia, and the police find it very satisfactory to send a formal letter to an offender against by-laws suggesting his attendance at court on a specific date. If the motorist desires to plead not guilty he can igndre the message and let the summons follow in due course. This is a modern and polite way of dealing with the little errors that the best of citizens commit.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 88, 5 July 1927, Page 13
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140ISSUING SUMMONSES Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 88, 5 July 1927, Page 13
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