MOTOR TRAFFIC.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5300, 16 July 1928, Page 3

MOTOR TRAFFIC.

DRIVING IN PAEROA STREETS.

BY-LAWS to be enforced.

Probably in no other borough are tihp by-laws ; and other regulations as opijJS’ disregarded as in Paeroa, and >u the interests of all it is high time some action was taken. . At'the Borough Council meeting on Thursday night the subject of the behaviour of the Paeroa-Waihi motorbus drivers was brought forward by Cr. H. J. Hare in no uncertain manner. Only that day he had seen the drivers of the, large buses tearing through the streets regardless: of other traffic or pedestrians, and it w.a,s time they were checked. •

Cr. J. Pinder, agreed, and sai l that he had seen the drivers: cut in on other traffic and travel backward and forward across the street in a most unreasonable manner.

Cr. Turner said that coinpetition was all. right, but not when a serious, risk of Injury to life and limb was run. Unless something was done at once a serious accident was inevitable. In. the opinion of Cr. P. E. Brenan greater precaution wa.s necessary in Belmont Ro.ad. He thought that, one stop between the Paeroa and Royal Mail hotels was plenty. If definitestopping places on the correct side of the street were made the people would soon get used to it, and unnecessary congestion in ,Belmont Road would be avoided'.

The Mayor (Mn W. Marshall) agreed, and said that apparently the police took no action at all against offenders. The use made by the bus drivers of motor horns and sirens when passing down the main street was senseless, and should not be tolerated. Breaches of the motor regulations, and also the by-laws, were being committed daily in the streets, and something would have to be done..' It was agreed to instruct the foreman to prosecute without- warning every individual whp committed a breach of the -motor traffic rules.

It was also decided to tighten up on the parking regulations in the main, streets, with particular attention to Belmont Road, the matter being left in the hands of. Cr. Brenan 'and Die foreman with power to act.