STREET MANNERS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1924, Page 1

STREET MANNERS.

WELLINGTON'S NEW DATKOI

WELLINGTON, September 1

My the appointment of a special traflic patrol the Wellington City Council hopes to obtain stricter observance of the kcep-to-the-left rule for pedestrians. The patrol will have a busy time enforcing tlie bv-laus dealing with this regulation with footpath blockages caused by folk who will stop and talk a while in the middle of tl'.c pavement, with corner blockages caused by those mlio stand on the lorncr of a street for one reason or another and so on. Vehicular .traffic in the city st reels will also come within the .senpc ol the, work of the | a 1 1 , >l. but in tliat res p," 1 its duty will probably he lighter than upon the pavement, for generally speaking the vehicular by-laws are lairIy ivell obsened ill the city. The in, iorisl who lakes a risk and heats a tram to its next stepping place, hoivever, has not quite disappeared. From to-day also regular pal lolling of Die llutt Mead t nniiei-u, ~-d. tic patrolman heiny mounted on a Itiyli- ] oiii'iTi! motor eyrie, anil |:ossessiiig full nuthorilv lo overliaid and deal with motorists who exceed the new speed limit of thirty miles per hour, ll is probable that the raising of the speed limit- from twenty-five to thirty miles per hour in itself lias done .something to cheek speeding, for whereas few motorists were satisfied with twentylive miles the majority will he satisfied with thirty miles per hour, and consequently "ill not lie tempted to break the rules and press down the accelerator unduly. The driver who com--1 lained of the low speed sot very often argued that lie might just as Well he hanged for a sheep as a lamb, and sent his ear up towards the forty mark, lmtfroin to-dav wlmt ten,loney still remains with motorists to exceed the limit will very premptly he checked by the moimle,| patrol constable.