SPEED OF MOTORS
CONFERENCE AT WELLINGTON.
OPPOSITION TO 40 m.p.h. LIMIT.
(Per Press Association — Capyrght.)
WELLINGTON, November 30.
The conference called by the Transport Commissioner spent the whole of yesterday afternoon discussing the proposed alteration in .the motor speed regulations to provide a maximum speed of 40 miles per .hour. The case for the change was put by departmental officers, and most of the time was taken up by the opponents who desired an enactment of the English law, penalising only the driving to common danger.
Neither the Main Highways Board nor the police were in favour of the 40 miles an hour limit, which was defeat-
ed on a vote by a sub.stanti;*l majority, chiefly on the ground that enforcement was impossible; also that the Department’s estimate of saving in the upkeep of road surfaces was illusory. A motorist was not habitually driving at speeds ;in excess 0.l 40' miles an hour. The secretary advised tho conference that the proposal had been sent to ■three hundred local bodies. Twentythree per cent, merely received the intimation, meaning, that they had no opposition nor comment to send forward. ' 1 . ■ !
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1932, Page 6
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188SPEED OF MOTORS Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1932, Page 6
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