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Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1930, Page 11

<f Wc have cabled to the Victorian Yachting Club at Melbourne asking, for immediate details of the race in order that we may see if a Canterbury boat is capable of success,” said Mr. A. F,. who has offered financial assistance for a Canterbury yacht to race with two Australian yachts across the Tasman Sea. Mr. Stacey told a reporter of the Christchurch Press that, because of business reasons, the names of the skipper and crew to man the Canterbury yacht could not yet be Announced. The increasing dangers,, of present-day street traffic were stressed by the Crown Prosecutor at Auckland,.. Mr. Meredith, when addressing a jury in. the Supreme Court in a case of alleged negligent driving. In these days of fast-moving traffic fatal accidents were becoming vtry frequent, he said, and pedestrians were undergoing greater risks than ever, With the result that cases came before the court. It was the jury’s duty to examine this particularcase to see whether the care that ought to be taken by the driver of the car had been taken. The responsibility was ■ entirely with the jury to say whether in this case that degree of care necessary, for.,the; protection of human life .snd »of; people.t ing the ..street, had. been take/lyst