It is a question of whether you should conform to the regulations or whether your young lady should conform to fashion —which would be the cheaper,” commented Mr R. C. Abernethy, S.M., in the Invercargill Magistrate’s Court when he fined James Laurie 5s with 10s costs, for carrying a pillion rider seated other than astride and facing forward on a motor cycle. The defendant’s excuse that “the lady’s skirt was too tight to sit astride” prompted 1 the rejoinder from the Bench. Traffic? Inspector E. Stopford stated that a copy of the road code was issued to every person issued with a driver’s licence and the Magistrate said that apparently the defendant did not read those regulations which applied to him.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 August 1938, Page 4
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