Right-hand Rule

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 19, 21 April 1947, Page 3

Right-hand Rule

“Persons, who rely on the righthand rule do not have that right in their favour if another car reaches the intersection before him,” said Mr J. H. Salmon, S.M., after hearing evidence in the Magistrate’s Court at Wanganui, in a motor collision. Mr Justice Reid and other authorities had stated that motorists were not entitled to go barging along on the presumption that they had the right of way. Another car may happen to be there before them, in which case they lost the right of way, the magistrate added.

Price Of Beer

No increase in the price of beer resulting from the removal of the subsidy on sugar is foreseen by a representative of the brewery industry. Whether individual brewers decided to apply to the Price Tribunal for an increased price would be a matter for their own consideration. So far as brewers in general were concerned the increased cost, which would be an appreciable item in the cost of manufacture, would be in line with the higher costs of barley, malt, hops, transport and labour in recent years, which, so far, had been boi'ne by the industry.