THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES
Sound Tub Horn. Apart from the natural failure of inexperienced and incompetent drivers to make the best of tilings when they are faced by an unaccustomed danger, the two worst forms of carelessness, v liieli are most likely to result in accident are the tendency to drive at excessive speed and the neglect of the rule that the warning signal would be given on approaching and rounding corners. For ’■scorching” or "speeding,” more especially on public thoroughfares, more or less crowded with traffic, there can he no possible excuse. The "motor fiend” under such conditions is a public danger—indeed a public enemy—and should he treated ns such. But even while travelling at an ordinary rate there can be no excuse for failing to sound the horn when approaching a comer, especially when, as often happens in our hill country, there are series of curves on a steep grade to Innegotiated in succession.— Auckland "Star,”
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 February 1925, Page 2
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158THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES Hokitika Guardian, 18 February 1925, Page 2
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