INSPECTORS FOR OTAKI.

Otaki Mail, 16 March 1923, Page 2

INSPECTORS FOR OTAKI.

MOTOR TRAFFIC. Motor traffic has made such headway in the Dominion during the past lew years that there is need for very strict and more uniform regulations to govern its control. In some places a section ot the motorists seem to be under the impression that they have the sole right to the roadway, and that it is their privilege to defy the by-laws, it is a mutter for regret that 'he tra'ric bylaws are not more stringently enforced in this town. Breaches are committed every day in a most glaring manner. aid the .culprits escape. In a city such d diiince of the traffic bylaws soon brings about an introduction to a magistrate's court. There was a time when a section of the legal fraternity in New Zealand encouraged the lighting of the motor by-laws of a local body. This was attended with success for a period, Jill I now magistrates generally realise that common sense, in the desire foi - , public safety, is behind those by-laws. More than one attempt has been made in some towns by certain members of tin* Borough Councils to rescind some of the motor by-laws, but. we are glad 'io be able to say. without success. Motorists in the large cities now realise that the police and traffic inspectors ate determined to protect the public from evasions of the motor regulations, mid the sooner motorists geuerally recognise thai that have a duly to obey ilejaw and take care to give reasonable safety to, pedestrians or other us- ! ers of the highways, the better ii will bo i,.,- all concerned. In Otaki the Borough Council is alive to the fact that something must be done am*! intends to appoint two reliable men to watch pit dings on its behalf. It is generally known thai motorists pass by Otaki Railway at excessive speeds to j tie- danger of life and limb. Already many accidents have occurred, and others will occur unless some sliong ni asures arc taken.