HEAVY LORRY TRAFFIC

Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1929, Page 3

HEAVY LORRY TRAFFIC

' T(> .'SUNDAY. ”I, travelling; , , NAPIER, October 25. lorry traffic on-Sundays oc- • tbe attention of the Hawke’s jjay Counties Conference i n Napier j. this morning when it was resolved to discuss the question with the counties’ ’ and the police. The speakers thought it not right that motor lorries should carry on their trading on Sundays.-?;*. The posiion was govened, one delegate Stated, by the 1924 regulations which -provided that commercial vehides may not run on Sundays for the purpose of business. People who followed their, calling on Sunday broke tne Ua.Wt and should come under the the police. • hi One -speaker said that -heavy, lorries were. adiinderance to who lookdrive. ‘ > decided-to enter an ejnphalic , protest 'Against the Transport Law Amendment Bill, the arnendihent ..would take-powers from the. Counties and result in the establishment of'-another Government -D& jJa-rtment, thereby increasing the burden of the rate-payers. L i Mr T. Mason Chambers said that the Bill.-meant the constitution of a new * branch of the Civil Service to do work which could be satisfactorily carried out under present arrangements. He added that the Civil Service was already overloaded. In proportion to the population, ’ it- was probably the bigbest in the’ -world and each session found new Departments being constituted, which were costing an enormous amount, . and giving no benefit.