PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 56, 14 March 1944, Page 4

PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS

COMPLAINTS about motorists who are repeatedly ignoring the regulations covering the use of pedestrian crossings, are growing so numerous that both the Automobile Asociation and the Transport Department are pressing for prosecutions to serve as a deterrant to others. A friendly warning is therefore issued to motorists in general* to exercise the greatest care when negotiating a pedestrian crossing which it should be fully realised is primarly for the benefit of the pedestrian, not the motorist.

Waimana Gymkhana The events advertised as loc&\ horse events for the Waimana gymkhana have now been altered to open events, i.e., events 3 and 7. It has now been decided to hold a "baby show" at the gymkhana. Croquet Hoops Missing A number of hoops from the croquet greens in the Whakatane Domain have been removed and lost by some person or persons unknown. Stops are now being taken to warn, offenders that in future any person seen tampering with these devices will be prosecuted.

Town Geyser The. public of Whakatane was amazed on Monday morning to sec what was apparently a geyser, spring up and play merrily at the lower end of the Strand. However, when passers-by- paused to investigate they found it to be nothing more than a water pipe, at the end of the gutter which had lost its tap. The water was squirting gaily from the socket where the tap should have been, to a height of several feet and looked for all the world like a pocket edition of the Pohulu geyser at Rotorua.