MOTOR TRAFFIC

Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9849, 30 October 1924, Page 5

MOTOR TRAFFIC

provision for heavy TRAFFIC BY-LAV fa.

WELLINGTON, Oct. 29. A Publics Works Amendment Bill was introduced in the House tn.s iWvas briefly explained by the Minister lie said that it dealt principally with heavy traffic by-laws and was the natural corollary to the jViotoi Vehicles Bill. There was a provision m it to give local bodies power to license over a wide area vehicles ol.a capacity over two tons and not’ Exceeding ten tons. The license wourd carry them over a wide area to be arranged by the contiguous local bodies ,ih which there were boioughs, town boards and county councils side bv side. It provided ror one set of by-laws over the extended areas that might be mutually, arranged These bodies could issue licenses and dun ge £5 for vehicles or two tons ana over, not exceeding ten tons up to Th'* s he said, would exclude the importation of lorries of a greater capoCitY than ten tons load. There uas Provision for the classification, by ■l)rder-in-Couiicil of certain roans in >jp\ v Zealand -so that only a certain wmght cbulcl he carried over them. This would Vive local bcd.es Lie oi> r-ovtun’ty in the meantime of gottn.g regulations drafted or Orders inCouncil drafted. L-tsr «.*, a arLa ment could deal comprehensively and Place'on the statute book the weights Umt motor vehicles or could carry. . The Bill had been asked for by ovary lccal body in the, Oo minion. There were, he aaded, ctner clauses manily cleaning up certain matters in connection wit.i annnnistration. —Special.