HOW’S THIS?

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 28, 26 April 1927, Page 10

HOW’S THIS?

Sydney recently introduced a safe-guard-your-car regulation, and a recent experience of a country member of the N.R.M.A. is interesting. Finding that his car had been moved, he made inquiries and learned that a local constable had entered the car and driven it to a near-by garage. The motorist challenged the constable’s action and later brought the matter before the head office of the association which, in turn, sought a ruling from the Traffic Department as to whether a member of the police force was entitled to take the action

referred to. No definite expression of departmental opinion, however, would be given, says the N.R.M.A. Since then the motorist in question has been prosecuted and fined for leaving his car “without having taken due precaution against its being moved in his absence.” So where are you? asks the N.R.M.A. WHEN WORDS FAIL Boyd Edkins gave Sydney this one—“An Adelaide business man, while motoring to visit some friends passed a youngster on a footpath, and splashed him from head to foot with mud. The kid hopped on the footboard of a bus, caught up the motorist, jumper from the bus to the footboard of the car and demanded and received 5s for damages to his clothes. While dining with his friends the motorist related the incident, and remarked that he “would like to screw the little beggar’s neck.” Suddenly his host’s son and heir rushed into the room, breathless: “What yer think, mum! Coinin’ home from school a bloke in a car splashed me with mud! I got five bob off him!”