LOADING OF LORRIES.

Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 246, 19 July 1928, Page 8

LOADING OF LORRIES.

AN ALLEGED BREACH. Discussion at Council Meeting. “ Some of these fellows think that if they have the letters ‘ P.W.D.’ on a lorry they have a sort of magic wand,” said Cr. E. J. Darby at the Matamata County Council meeting on Friday, when making a complaint in regard to a lorry which, he said, was proceeding along the road on the up-side of Horaphenua bridge with boughs protruding three or four feet o'er the sides of the lorry. It left about three feet of the roadway for another vehicle to pass, and had vehicles met at a narrower portion of the * oad one could not have passed the other. Cr. Darby wanted the council to go further, hut Cr. Allen considered that a second warning should be given. To the above Cr. Darby to-.k strong exception, and asked if Cr. W. 11. Allen thought he </ as a liar.

The chairman of the meeting (Cr. S. li. Judd) called Cr. Darby to order, and requested him to address his remarks to the chair. He (the chairman) would not permit any member tc make personal reflections on an other across the council table. Cr. Darby here interrupted the chairman, and he was ordered to s.L down, otherwise .he would be asked to leave the room. Cr. Darby: I bow to your ruling, provided that it applies all round. Cr. Allen: I did no' make any aspersions against Cr. Darby. Cr. J. Bruce observed that the man may not have been fully conversant with the regulations, and supported Cr. Allen’s view. Cr. Rollett supported. Cr. Darby said he would withdraw his motion to prosecute if the driver wrote acknowledging that the branches were dangerously overhanging, and that the council would not thereupon prosecute. Cr. Darby carried his point.