Police - H.N. Instone has recalled that car parking problems, especially outside the Theatre Royal in Delamere Avenue and the Lyric Theatre in Hardinge Street, during 1926 and 1927 were already acute. Cars were often unlicensed and not roadworthy. Once he saw an African Constable of the Traffic Squad placing a large stone beneath a back wheel of a European settler's car parked at the Theatre Royal. When questioned, the Constable stated that "the car belonged to Bwana Mawe and always had a stone placed behind the back wheel. If this was not done, he became very angry." Bwana Mawe appeared before the Resident Magistrate, Mr Gamble, on a charge of having inefficient brakes and was suitably fined. Often cars were parked on a pavement, Instone says, or in a sanitary lane or some other forbidden spot. Parking was bad and many traffic accidents occurred. Shopkeepers parked their cars all day in front of their shops and strongly resented being told by the Police to remove them. Many were taken to Court for this offence and fined. Race meetings always proved exceptionally busy for the traffic squad.

Dominion - Assistant Inspector of Police - 1930