PARKING ON FIRE-PLUGS
Prees Assoolation.)
Limited Responsibility
(By Telegraph—
WELLINGTON, Last Night. In a reserved judgment, valid throughout New Zealand, Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M., to-day held that an offence against the motor regulation in regard to keeping fire-plugs clear arises only when a driVer or person in charge completes the operation of stopping oi? parlring, and tbat such person is not responsible if an unauthorised person subsequently moves the vehicle into the prohibited area. If the transport authorities intended otherwise, he said, they failed to express that intention, He clismissed two chargea, being satisiied that someone else had inoved fche cars to make room for themselves, or to enable them to drive away.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HBHETR19370630.2.49
Bibliographic details
Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 140, 30 June 1937, Page 5
Word Count
114PARKING ON FIRE-PLUGS Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 140, 30 June 1937, Page 5
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in