“NO ROYAL RIGHT”
MOTORISTS’ CLAIM TO ROADS Press Association CHRISTCHURCH. To-day. “Motorists have no royal right to the road at all,” said Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court to-day in delivering judgment in a dangerous driving case. “There is too much of that feeling among motorists in Christchurch,” he continued. “Pedestrians have the same right to the road as have motorists, especially at recognised intersections. We would all wish that pedestrian traffic were controlled like motor traffic.” 'The magistrate’s remarks followed on the hearing of a case in which William Alexander Welsh was charged with driving a motor car over tho Bank of New Zealand intersection in a manner dangerous to the public. Defendant was fined 20s with costs.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 473, 1 October 1928, Page 13
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