WIDTH OF TIRES.

Opunake Times, Volume III, Issue 150, 10 December 1895, Page 2

WIDTH OF TIRES.

At the hu.-t Council meeting the chairman drew attention to the necessity for introducing width of lire regulalations, and moved to set up a committee to make enquiries and report. The majority of the members were apparently not in favor of it, s'afing that they looked on it as a resurrection of the wheel tax. Mr McCullum stated (the Herald reports)* that it would cost him £25 to start with, lie being such a deeply interested person we think he would have shown better taste iu refraining from taking any part in tho discussion. There is one thing very patent, and tint is that something will have to be done to conserve the roads. All tho surrounding counties, and many of those in other parts of the colony as well as bote, adopted bylaws to regulate tiaflic, and it Taranaki is over to get its roads in order it will have to adopt the chairman's suggestion so m r or later, and prevent the roads being cut to pieces by tho use of kni r e-blado wheels to parry heavy load-:. Even if it does cost an immediate outlay it will be repaid tenfold iu having tho roads preserved for years longer than they

will be under the present conditions of traffic. -It is becoming very apparent that the ordinary rates are not sufficient to make and maintain the roads, and we are satisfied that if the settlers take into consideration that there is no alternative between wider "tires or a heavier rate they will willingly conform to a by-law dealing with the tires.