General Speed Limit

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 23, 11 September 1946, Page 7

General Speed Limit

Surprise that a belief was current among motorists that the 40miles an hour general speed limit had been rescinded was expressed by Mr G. G. Chisholm, S.M. during the hearing of a traffic case in the Ashburton Magistrate’s Court. In a letter, one defendant gave as his excuse for speeding, the reason that he thought the 40 miles an hour limit had been imposed to conserve tyres and there was no reason for motorists to think that the rule had gone out, as there was obviously still a need for it, remarked the magistrate.

Nocturnal Visitor

To be awakened in the middle of the night by something sharp cutting into his hand was the experience at Napier recently of a young man who is in the habit of sleeping near an open window. He immediately jumped out of bed and, with his free hand, brushed off what felt like a rat or some other small rodent, the creature being flung through the open window. Next morning the young man woke with a sizable incision in his finger, while on the outside wall near the window he found that blood was spattered, presumably from the action of throwing the marauder off. He now sleeps with his window closed.