LIGHTS ON VEHICLES.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14860, 6 September 1918, Page 3

LIGHTS ON VEHICLES.

CHIEF JUSTICE'S DECISION.

NEW PLYMOUTH BY-LAW UPHELD

LUnited Press Association.]

.-Hew.Plymouth, Sept. 4 ■ The Chief Jtistice lias-given"- 'a judg'4 merit which concerns all the boroughs in. New Zealand respecting ligiits on vehicles.- In the Magistrate's Court j here recently, 4 defendant was charged junder a^borou^Ji: by-law \yitk_ driving jn vehicle in /^He: streets di: ISiev/VPly- | mouth betweerilsiinset and snmise without proper;, --lights..,.- The Magistrate ruled the by-law invalid on the-ground tli.it it.could not override the- statutory ; la\V of 1905. . The.-Borough Council ap|pe?.led.. and: the: Chief -'Justice has upheld ;the appeal, .ruling the"'by-law rea■spnable.and'Yalid. :. / ; -.-.•:*■■■■■ ':■;;.■:-