PARKING OF CARS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 215, 11 August 1937, Page 2

PARKING OF CARS

3.45 P.M. EDITION

OMISSION FROM REGULATIONS. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Aug. 11. In a reserved judgment to-day, Mr W. R. McKean. S.M., referred to the omission from the new traffic regulations of a former provision concerning the parking of motor-cars. Joseph Howard, a yolmg man, was charged with driving a car on the road without care and attention. Howard left the car parked on an angle ill N\ clleslev Street while he visited the Post Office. After he had been away some minutes the car ran backwards downhill to the footpath at the corner of Lome Street and broke a large plate glass shop window. At the hearing the police said that under the former Act provision was made for such a ciise, hut under the new regulations no such provision was included. A similar prosecution had been successful in Wellington. Counsel submitted that Howard had not offended against the existing regulations. . Air AlcKenn, in his judgment, said that the former regulations contained a provision that a car, if on a grade, should be placed in such a position that, if set in motion when not under control, it would run into and remain against the . kerb. "When the new traffic regulations were enacted in December last the earlier regulations were revoked. For such a prosecution to succeed it must he established that (lie person charged was at the time in -actual physical control of the vehicle and directing and regulating its movements. “I think it regrettable, the Alagistrate added, “that the provision telating to the leaving of a car on a slope has been omitted from the existing regulations. lam of the opinion that defendant cannot be convicted ol the offence charged.” The information was dismissed.