SPEED LIMITS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 August 1925, Page 3

SPEED LIMITS.

DK.WAXI) FOR ABDLI'fIOX. A I'CKi.AN 1). Aug. 2. At a meeting ol ihe* North Island .Motor l uioii. tfie uue'-tion ot speed limirs on the roads ot New /eaiand was strongly aelvocated. speakers c,intending that the* interests ot public safety would he adequately met, with le*ss confusion to motorists, by the existing provision in the* Police Oilendciv Act. imposing penalties tor •‘Driving to the common danger. A remit, calling on the Government to fix uniform speed limits throughout the* Dominion, tint- displacing toe multiplicity of speed limits in torn? in various boroughs and counties, elid not meet with much favour, and an amendment. moved by Mr A. (Irnysnn. ot Auckland. was carried, urging t.ie* Government to amend the .Municipal Corporations Act by taking away tram local bodies all power to impost* speed limit.*. ~, ... Mr A. Tooiiood, ot \\ olhnicton. suggested that a demonstration of. the working of sumo of lot* existing laws mhdit ho made by motorists show the public how absurd some ot the speed limits were. If 49 or *"-t motor-ears, following one another were to demonstrate the by-laws requiring motor-cars to proieed round corners at four or five miles an hour, it wounl be -m extrenielv illuminating exi>enment. Auckland delegates stated that except for special limits in Domain Drive

and oil Grafton Bridge, the Auckland City Council had no speed limit l>evond the requirements of “reasonable driving” which, ot course, varied according to circumstances. Alagistrates investigated such circumstances, and judged the speed travelled accordingly. The system worked satistactorily. and the .Auckland Automobile Association had no complaints.