“THE WRONG IDEA”
STEERING WITH FEET SITTING ON BACK OF SEAT “You’ve got the wrong idea,” said Mr. W. H. Woodward, S.M., to Albert George Harrison, a young man charged in the Police Court in New Plymouth with recklessly driving a motor car in Queen street on the afternoon of Sunday, November 19. His recklessness consisted in the act of sitting on the back of the driver’s seat and sfeering the car with his feet on the steering wheel. He suggested that so long as he had control of the car and kept it on a straight course he was not reckless, and that so long as he had a license it was no business of the police how he drove his car. It was this attitude that prompted the magistrate to say lie had the wrong idea.
The magistrate said he believed there was no malice in the defendant, but he had to be given a lesson. He therefore convicted him and ordered him to pay cost's amounting to 16s and his license was cancelled for the remainder of the current term.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20120, 14 December 1939, Page 7
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