CRUDE ENGLISH.

Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18393, 29 July 1931, Page 6

CRUDE ENGLISH.

BADLY FRAMED REGULATION. IMPROPERLY LIGHTED VEHICLE. “ The regulation appears to be badly constructed. It Is in crude English at any rate,’ 1 observed Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., at Hamilton today in a case in which William Herbert Gartner, w’as charged with leaving a motor vehicle stationary in Norton Road, Frankton, on a recent night without proper lights burning. The evidence went to show that defendant’s vehicle was left standing between two street lamps and that- although the tail light was burning there were not light at the front. While the car was in that position another vehicle crashed into it from the rear. His Worship said the regulation provided that no motor vehiole should be left stationary on the road unless it displayed three lights " namely a headlight or other light having a beam directed forward from a lamp towards each side of the .front of the vehicle and the tail light described in clause Ave hereof."

“ The regulation demands throe lights and describes two only,” added His Worship. “ Then again light ts supposed to travel in a straight line, but the regulation requires It to be directed forward towards each side. The English is certainly crude." His Worship said that while defendant had been guilty of a breach of the regulations, that was not the cause of the accident, as his rear light was burning and the accident was from the rear. Defendant was ordered to pay costs 10s.