SPEED OF MOTORISTS.
UNREASONABLE BY-LAW. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Dec. 7. In a reserved judgment in the case in which Ernest Bolton and Stanley Acton Hunt were charged with speeding, Mr Salmon, S.M., declared that the by-law restricting the speed of traffic at intersections to eight miles per hour was unreasonably sweeping in its effect, and therefore unreasonable and invalid. He said that there, were several intersections on the main south road at which it would be extremely difficult for a motorist observing a speed limit of 20 miles per hour to slow down to eight miles per hour. At all intersections and junctions, to use the words of witnesses, he would have to use discretion, otherwise traffic, could not get along there, and the Court would be always filled. His Worship held that in the particular case before the Court the bylaw was unreasonable. He said his finding was but local, and only applied to the particular intersection. The by-law was reasonable enough in the case of intersections or junctions involving a large amount of traffic.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 9, 8 December 1926, Page 7
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177SPEED OF MOTORISTS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 9, 8 December 1926, Page 7
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