RACE TRAINS AND MOTOR TRAFFIC.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1808, 2 April 1918, Page 2

RACE TRAINS AND MOTOR TRAFFIC.

COMMENTING on the Mn mi wo in County’s remit to local governing bodies re the stoppage of race trains and the damage done to roads by motor ear traffic as a result, the Rodney and Oteanmta Times comments as follows: —“Some curious remits come to local bodies from other local bodies. One that was received by the Rodney County Council from the Manawatu County Council suggested that the members of the latter had forgotten that there was a war on. The grey matter'of the Southern councillors appears to be principally stirred by thoughts of horse-racing, which at time of national crisis might very well be dropped altogether. Manawatu Council yearns for special trains for races. They plead that motor cars that are run fo races,, instead of trains, injure their x’oads; so they desired the cooperation of all local bodies throughout the Dominion in a demand, on the Government that race specials should be restored. An easier way out would have been to demand the cessation of racing. Manawatu has not received much support for this proposal, here or elsewhere. It is amazing that it should have been made. Probably many residents of the Manawatu think so too,”