DEMONSTRATION CARS.

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16800, 19 May 1926, Page 8

DEMONSTRATION CARS.

LEGITIMATE USE tN BUSINESS. PROSECUTION PAILS. Some remarks on the Motor Vehicles Act, where it relates to the use of demonstration numbers oil cars, were made by Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., at Hamilton tin's morning, when a man named William Jackson was charged with using an unlicensed vehicle on a recent Sunday. it was slated that defendant, who was a car salesman for the Farmers’ Auctioneering Company, used a car belonging to (lie company, and bearing a demonstration number, oil a recent Sunday. When spoken lo by a police constable defendant slated that lie was merely running in the car prior lo handing it over lo llic purchaser. His Worship said that cacli case of this kind must lie considered on its inerils. if a man who worked in a garage drove a ear with a demonstration number along the road in order to get some parts from another place, lliat would, considered his Worship, ho no breach of Ihe Act. The running of a car on a Sunday, if for the purpose of breaking it in or in endeavouring lo j secure a sale, could not be inter- ' preted ns a breach of the Act. Com- ] moil sense must be allowed some play in such . eases. If, however, a man J look out a trade car on a Sunday for j a picnic, that would be an illegitimate use, as also would he Iho use of a demonstration ear for taking the demons! rator to and from his Dome for meals. In the present case, Ihe breaking in of a ear on Sunday in order to hand it over to Ihe purchaser in a belter condilion, was, lo his Worship's mind, quite a legitimate use, and the case would lie dismissed. Senior-Sergeant Sweeney intimated lliat’ proceedings might he taken against defendant under the Police iilfences Act, for plying his calling on a Sunday. His Worstiip said lliat even in that case “the 'circumstances would govern, the proceedings.