TRAFFIC REGULATION

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20720, 6 May 1937, Page 6

TRAFFIC REGULATION

DISOBEDIENT PEDESTRIAN By Telegraph—P r ess Association AUCKLAND, May 5. “This is the first case of the kind ever taken against a pedestrian.” said the city superintendent of traffic, Mr C. Bland, in the Magistrate's Court today, when Kenneth A. Inglis pleaded guilty to a charge of failing to obey a traffic inspector. Mr Bland said that no penalty was asked for. He pointed out that pedestrians were required under the Traffic Regulations, 1936, to obey traffic officers just as were drivers of vehicles. Tire regulations aimed at safe and efficient regulation of traffic, but nothing coul.' be done without the cooperation of pedestrians. At a busy hour in Quay Street after cars had been signalled to proceed, Inglis walked on to the street with his arm raised. Asked by a traffic officer what he meant he said. “Don’t you know your job? You're a fine traffic man. You are supposed to hold up traffic for us pedestrians.” Inglis said he nad only two minutes to catch a boat. “There are only two kinds of pedestrians on the road to-day, the quick and the dead," said Mr Orr Walker, S.M., with a anile in convicting and discharging the defendant. The traffic regulations aimed at protecting pedestrians.