EXCESSIVE SPEED.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4408, 30 January 1930, Page 3

EXCESSIVE SPEED.

• 1 ON IIIMATANGI ROAD.

LORRY DRIVER. FINED.

“The Manawatu County Council has 12 miles of newly constructed roads between Rangiotu and Foxton, and I am informed by the engineer that it costs £3OO per mile to keep them in order, and yet we have these lorries tearing over them at an excessive speed and ripping them to pieces,” stated Mr. W. Berry, traffic inspector to the council, when preparing a charge against R. Gay, a driver of a motor lorry, and employed by a transport. linn in Palmerston North, at flu* Peilding Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. The speed limit of the class of vehicle defendant was driving was 12 miles per hour on the Foxton-Himatangi Road, the inspector continued, and he had followed him for some distance in his car, but on account, of the speed of the lorry, and the way the stones on the road were being thrown about, lie had been afraid to pass and had got the man’s name fromthe company lie was driving for in Palmerston North. The council .was determined to stop this speeding by heavy vehicles over its roads, and this was not the Irst prosecution brought, forward by it on similar grounds. A fine of £3 and costs was indicted by the Magistrate, Mr. R. M. Watson.