MOTORISTS WARNED

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10309, 19 January 1927, Page 5

MOTORISTS WARNED

OFF SIDE” BY-LAW SHOULD BE OBSERVED.

Prosecution appears to be the only remedy for delinquent motorists. At least, that is the recourse the local traffic inspector or police officers will be driven to before the public rcogni.se the “off-side” regulation.

The- by-law has been in force since .November last, vet motorists drive around as if they had never heard of it, and even in the local Magistrate s ■Court, solicitors plead extenuating circumstances in motor bv-law cases as they say the “off-side ’ rule has not yet come into force! An amendment to Section 22 ot Bylaw No.' Vll- of the Gisborne Borough By-l ows is emphatic on the point. It states:

“Every person being the driver cl any vehicle or the rider of a horse or bicycle proceeding on, through or along any street or private street in the Borough and approaching or arriving at the intersection of such street shall way to the driver of any other vehicle or rider of any other horse or bicycle approaching or arriving at such intersection on the right-hand or “off-side” of such first-mention-ed vehicle, horse or bicycle. J.n short, the by-law means that on approaching an intersection a dnvei should take no notice /of traffic ap preaching from the left, but slum always give way to traffic cn 'right. . f Though the rule has been in forc« for over two months local motorist, and others have taken little nofice o it. It is understood >hat cases will be brought before tlie Mag Ste m the hear future as a warn ing to drivers.