Dr. W. H.. Gardiner was summoned before Mr. D. R. Cooke at H. M. Police Court on Wednesday for having caused an obstruction by parking his car in an unauthorized place in Canton Road.
Chief Inspector Kinipple, who appeared for the police, gave evidence that the car was left standing on the north side of Canton Road about 50 yards from the Bund from 9 o'clock until 10.5 on the morning of the 7th instant, a time when traffic was busy.
Dr. Gardiner, whose office is in Union Building, said he usually kept his car in a garage between the Union and the Dollar Buildings, but the P. W. D. had the floor up for drainage purposes and he had to take it elsewhere. On this occasion he was unexpectedly detained in his office. He was at some inconvenience as to parking his car on the Bund owing to the number of cars of members of the Shanghai Club immediately in front of his office, and he generally had to take it some distance away.
The Magistrate said he was satisfied that Dr. Gardiner's infringement of the regulations was quite unintentional, and imposed the nominal fine of $2.
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