§ Captain ERSKINE-BOLSTasked the Minister of Transport whether his attention has been called to the recent dismissal of a case at Chester Petty Sessions against two riders for riding horses on the footpath along the side of the road after it had been pointed out that it was the duty of the highway authority, under the Road Traffic Act, to provide adequate margins for riders as well as pedestrians; and whether, in view of the desirability that the existence of this obligation should be generally known, he will consider the 380W issue of a circular drawing attention to the matter?
Mr. STANLEYI was not aware of this particular case, but the attention of highway authorities was drawn in a circular issued by my Department in March, 1931, to the declaration in Section 58 of the Road Traffic Act, 1930, as to the duties of highway authorities with regard to the provision of grass or other margins for the accommodation of ridden horses and driven live stock, as well as of footpaths for the accommodation of foot passengers.