PARKING PROBLEMS

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20785, 21 April 1939, Page 9

PARKING PROBLEMS

VICTORIA STREET TRAFFIC SPOIL TRUCKS MAKE CONGESTION With motor trucks engaged on the removal of spoil from Garden Place Hill crowding the streets the parking problem in Hamilton has been accentuated, according \p Mr W. E. Nicholson, Chief Traffic Inspector of the Hamilton Borough Council, who conducted several prosecutions with relation to breaches of the borough parking by-laws in the Magistrate’s Court, Hamilton, yesterday, before Mr S. L. Paterson, S.M. Mr Nicholson raid that many cars which previously parked in Anglesea Street were now forced into Victoria Street and crowded the parking in the main street and some of the narrow sido streets. Considerable trouble was being experienced with double parking, commented Mr Nicholson in prosecuting Clarence Hart Hansen for the offence. “1 hope a conviction or two in this relation will have the desired effect,” said Mr Nicholson. Several parking offences led to cases being brought by the traffic inspectors of the borough. Kenneth Nelson Dobson, Douglas Gordon Archer Francis William Mullen, and Edward N. Valintine were each fined 10s and costs for parking on a bus stop. For turning in the main street Alfred Trevor Blackmore and Roy Walker were lined £1 and IDs costs each.