REGULATION WEAKNESS
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Production of Warrants of Fitness
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CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. "The Magistrate has hifc on an important ■ question and the anomaly will be removed lmmediately by an amending regulation," said the Minister of Ti ansport, the Hon. R. Semple, in rei'erring to a weakness in the new traffie regulations recently indicated by Mr O. R. Orr Walker. S.M., during the hearing of a case at tho Magistrate's Court at Auckland. According, to the Magistrate although the regulation made it incumbent on the driver of a vehicle to carry a warrant of fitness, it did not require him to produce .the warrant on deraand by a duly-consfcituted authority. "I am personally grateful to the Magistrate for pointing out this weakness," Mr Semple added. "It is only when new regulations come under the acid test in Court that weaknesses are found, and the Magistrate who points these 'out is rendering a .good -serrice to the country."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 198, 7 September 1937, Page 2
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