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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 July 1938, Page 5

“I think it is a very unfortunate rule,” said Mr J. K. Moloney in the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court, referring to the regulation that traffic must give way to vehicles approaching from the right. “You would not think so if you drove as much as I do; it is the one thing that makes motoring bearable in New Zealand, ’ said the Magistrate (Mr E. C. Levvey). Mr Moloney contended that some allowance should be made for the speed of the vehicle approaching from the right and that the question arose as to the point at which a motorist should be considered to have broken the rule. A car might be on the intersection first when another car was approaching from the'right at a speed which made it impossible for it to be seen in time for the first driver to give way. The Magistrate said that he had been asked to consider the matter of split seconds before—whether a driver was justified in not giving way because he was on the intersection a fraction of a second before the other driver. “I want the rule about giving way to be made absolute,” he said. “I always stop. The defendant in this case has failed to give yay, and he is liable for the penalty just as you or I would be, Mr Moloney.”