HORSE TRAFFIC

Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1927, Page 3

HORSE TRAFFIC

A SYDNEY PROBLEAI. SYDNEY, Oct. 0. It takes an old dog for a hard road. That is the feeling in many quarters about the horse in Sydney to-day. Tho horse may be regarded bv some as an anachronism nowadays in a modern, bustling, city like Sydney, but that it has not outlived its usefulness, in the opinion of others, is evident from the defeat of a proposal to ban horse traffic, four years from now, within a radius of several miles of the Geneial Post Office. Rather than sound the death-knell of the horse in flic city, it has been decided, in a sweet spirit of compromise, to seek merely a revision of tho regulations governing such traffic within the city area. In fact, some firms in Sydney', which had tried motor-lorries and found them i. j bit costly for purely short journeys with man.v stoppages, are said tc, have, revolted to the horse.

New South Wales -Master Carriers’ Association includes 130 members, who own more than 1000 horse-drawn vehicles. The horse is not dead in Sydney' by a long way', even if motors are swelling in numbers every day, as is apparent from the fact that, during the last 12 months, they have served to bring into the Treasury, in taxation fees and fines, the huge sum of £1,240,135. It is estimated, incidentally, that during the present financial year, the motorists of New South AYales will pay about £1,500,000 to the State, of which, however, only about £564,837 will be banded to the Main Roads Board if what is now termed the “grab” legislation of last session is allowed to be perpetrated. •