A WARNING TO MOTORISTS
MUST GIVE PAIR SHARE OF ROAD TO PASSING VEHICLES
A warning to motorists was given at the local S.M. Court yesterday, before Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M, when the Manawatu County Council’s Traffijc Inspector (Mr. VV. Berry) proceeded against T. Morgan, motor tractor driver, Whitannui, for failing to leave a reasonable part of the road for ears td pass.
Ah'. Berry said that he had received several complaints about defendant, who drove a tractor and trailer to and fro between Whitaunui Mill, Moutoa, and Foxton. As a result he had; visited the Moutoa road and there had met defendant driving a tractor with trailers attached. Witness had been compelled to follow behind 1 him for threequarters of a mile before he could pass in his car. Defendant had kept to the centre of the road and when witness got ahead! and stopped him, defendant admitted he knew witness was behind him but said his load was too heavy to allow him to pull off the road. The tractor was doing no more than five miles per hour.
The/S.AI. said it was absurd for defendant to say that he could not pull off the road in second gear. He would be fined £2 and costs £1 5s as a lesson to himself and others.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3611, 10 March 1927, Page 3
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217A WARNING TO MOTORISTS Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3611, 10 March 1927, Page 3
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