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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7718, 21 January 1905, Page 3

motorists who visited- Hawera just prior to the New Year appeared in the Hawera Star of that date. The motorists did not at the time attempt to refute the aspersion, as they knew it was untrue, and thought ' that possibly the affair » might bo ventilated in court. As the runaway horse with cart attached was the property of the Mayor of Hawera, and had been left unattended, a breach of the bye-laws of that town was committed. This inattention w-as the cause of the whole trouble. The climax in this case wal perhaps reached on Tuesday last, when the case was before the court, on wiiich occasion the Mayor (Mr B. C. Rabbins) admitted in effect that he knew of the bye-law in question, but had never attempted to comply ■with it, nor did anyone else in Hawera. He claimed to use his judgment tin the matter o.f .following it or not. The case against the chaffcur was dismissed. It appear* to us that instead of the chafleur of the car being summoned the owner **— 2LJ hC runaw,a y horse should have ■faK****' called upon to answer for the of those bye-laws that he as principal magistrate of the town assisted lg make,