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Hokitika Guardian, 10 September 1932, Page 6

sponsibilty for accidents on traffic em.rging from the subsidiary routes. Under British hriV'' the '"trivial trickle urom jetty by-roads bears no grpatei .esponsbility than the main stream, and poss-cees exactly equal rights. Tills is, of course, absurd.. Why_ should—shaft ; we ‘ Flying 'Scot be slowed in order that Giles,may get hie rabbit skins bomb three minutes barler? The by-road traffic should be made to .vait;" and' punished if it' interferes ;vtu national transport. Our signpost , ystein displays the same stupid lack if sense and imagination. Travelling ii Italy '.ast.autumil ITiormaTy siglit-->d ii deal' direction hoard TOO yards ir more ohoft of any important ro?.d junction; as I drew near to the actual traffic vortex,' I was pf'c-iiifoi-mcil’ ey.iictly which arm I wished to We, and I arrived at the junction with a definite plan and" also'my facilities freed for vigilance.,. When 1 arrive at‘an unfamiliar erasing in England, T 'usually find ..precisely the' type 'of •igjipost which the old postchaisci used. Its lettering is so small that I have to stop on the centre 'of the erosK’VwuW"to, read, anil ivh • arm T want, to decipher is probably l i'jnn'-.-ted by another a rim pointing to seme place whither T have no ’wish to go.

The reduction of the road casualty list depend- oil a large number of small alterations 1 in ’ road construction and' organisation. ’/y‘