The Archive · 1939

Parking Regulations Are Confused

Defendant's Assertion in H.M. Police Court

Contending that the parking regulations as defined by the Shanghai Municipal Police were so confused that drivers had to formulate their Own ideas as to which were parking places and which were not, a defendant in H.M. Court yesterday mornin, pleaded not guilty to a charge of parking his car for 55 minutes where the kerb was marked ith black and white tiles on Bubbling Well Road near Seymour Road.

The defendant, Mr. T. S. Little, was one of four persons summoned before Mr. L T. Morris, Acting Registrar, for breaches of the Traffic Regulations. He told the court that he had written to the police stating that his car probably had been parked there. He had left it there for a certain time, he added, because it was his contention that the parking regulations as defined by the police were so confused that "a man had to make his own US. Naval "War"

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