HIGH SPEEDS.

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17169, 28 March 1927, Page 2

HIGH SPEEDS.

DANGER TO PUBLIC. I — | TESTS NOT APPROVED. Disapproval of the high speeds at 1 which motorists travel in speed tests and reliabilitv trials was ex- ; presse£ at the half-yearly meeting of delegates to the South Island Motor . tlnion at Christchurch. 1 Mr J. S. Dick (Southland) moved and Mr H. C. Harley (Nelson) sec- i onded: — "That the South Island Motor Union consider taking steps i to see if there is any way of aho- 1 fishing record-hreaking speed trials on public highways and recommend 1 that as such speeds are contrary to ; ihe public interest and are an of- ; fence under the law, the Govern- i ment be urged to prohibit p.ublication of such a record of misdeeds." ■ Mr R. P. Fur'ness (Marlborough) ] said that it was time that the matter was taken up. »He reaS from a ■ newspaper cutting the repcrt of a trial in which a mbtorist had com- : pleted a journey which usually took about five days, in 24 huors 5 minutes. "It $,eems to me that the timo has ; come when these trials should be conducted in some walled-in place , so that if a man gties over the hank j he will lcill no one but himself," i said Mr Furness.v "These men go ] too "fast altogether;' lThe citizen in ! the street must be- ennsidered." The remit was passed.