FIFTY YEARS AGO
FURIOUS DRIVING CABS AT SEJVEN MILES HOURLY Furious- driving down Queen Street at speeds approaching seven miles an hour was brought to notice in the New Zealand Herald; of November 14, 1886, as folloAVs:— "Some steps should be taken to prevent furious driving in Queen Street on Saturday nights when the streets are crowded with people. The tramears move almost at a wall* with whistles blowing, though confined to the rails, but iti is no uncommon thing to sec a-cabman careering alcuig—driving through long lanes of people at six or seven miles an hour, the o.nlv warning being the occasional crack of his whip. On Saturday nights this reckless conduct Ms most conspicuous, and gives the impression that such rapid driving is done out of bravado and pure 'eussedness' rather than anything else. When someone has been knocked over and seriously, if not fatally, injured, the City Council will then adopt some remedial and prohibitory measures."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 11, 2 February 1942, Page 3
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159FIFTY YEARS AGO Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 11, 2 February 1942, Page 3
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