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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 37, 13 February 1937, Page 6

Whether a traffic Inspector was in error or a 30,000 to ono chance had occurred, was the issue left to Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, yesterday, when he heard a charge against a car driver, of park ing a car in Johnston Street for more than one hour. The inspector deposed that he marked the front and rear wheels of the car near the bottom, and also placed a corresponding mark on the roadway. Nearly four hours later the car was parked in the same place, with the two marks coffeaponding exactly. Defendant on the other hand described his movements with the car elsewhere during the four hours. Mr. A. R. Cooper, who prosecuted for the City Traffic Department, said that if Loth stories were right defendant must have parked his car the second time on exactly the same spot. The odds against this, he said, were one in 32,000. 'I o Magistrate decided there was room for a mistake and dismissed the charge.