HORSEMEN v. FOOT PASSENGERS.
To the Editor of the Otago Daily Times. Mr. Editor,:—You will excuse me troubling you with these few remarks, but, considering the severe remarks and stringent laws now in effect against drivers and horsemen, I think a little more alertness on the part of foot-passengers would not be misplaced. Any one in the habit of riding or driving must be aware what an exceedingly difficult matter it is to steer through ths large assemblages of people always congregated about our principal streets, utterly regardless of danger, or in entire forgetfulness that the road was intended for traffic and footpaths for passengers. If the police, instead of molesting every carrier or other person who draws his team in a few minutes by the street-side, were to see that drays and vehicles each kept their proper side, right ancl left, the streets would be much more passable, and we would not so often' witness that confused state of men, horses, and drays wound up together in inexplicable confusion. I am. Sir, ■ Yours respectfully, Arthur Smith, .Stafford-street. ■ Dunedin, March 4.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 94, 5 March 1862, Page 4
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