RECKLESS MOTORISTS
LEGISLATIVE CHECK SUGGESTED, i _
By TeleeraDh—Praia Aisociation' r Christchurch, August 5. At a meeting of tho South Island Motor Union to-night, the secretary reported that he had forwarded a letter to all Canterbury members of Parliament stating that owing to the frequency of serious motor accidents in the Dominion, the executive of the union con sidered that legislation should immediately bo passed to check careless and reckless driving. Experience had shown that tho mere fining of an offender did not prove a sufficient, deterrent, and the union had made representations to tho Government that it immediately introduce a Bill to Parliament dealing with tho licensing of all drivers of motor vehicles, such license to be granted/and be renewable by the Police Department, at a nominal fee and subject to cancel' lation, suspension, or endorsement _by u, Magistrate. In regard to numbering motor-cars, the present system was very defective, in that there was no check on tho numbering and registration of core which were sold and were taken to n district other than that in which they were registered.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19200806.2.54
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 268, 6 August 1920, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
180RECKLESS MOTORISTS Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 268, 6 August 1920, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in