COUNTY BY-LAWS.

Shannon News, 13 March 1923, Page 2

COUNTY BY-LAWS.

CONTROL OF HEAVY TRAFFIC IN WINTER. REVISION TO BE PUSHED ON. The County Chairman, Mr Monk, mentioned at Saturday’s meeting of the Horowlienua County Council , that xt was hoped to have, a revision of ’ the county by-laws in the near future. in answer to Cr. Broadheit, the Clerk said he was gathering information from other counties to put. before councillors. The last revision was in 1910. The trouble ..was that the other counties/ seemed to he revising their by-laws, and everything was .in a transitory stage, ire read some of the „ answers he had received to letters stating revisions were in progress or contemplated. Cr. Broadbelt urged that the Council should push on and get the best legal advice possible, especially as be considered the control of the roads . would have to he dealt with under the by.-laws. The Chairman said it was essential that they should have some regulation to deal with heavy traffic during the winter months. Cr. Ryder: If we don’t we will have no roads left. Cr. Harkness said they should give ample notice to the lorries. The Chairman said-they were required to advertise the new by-laws and give’the notice necessary by Statute. Cr. Broadheit said it seemed to him they had been a long time over the matter. They should have by-laws that would stand the test of law and cope with the heavy traffic. The .Chairman: You canffbt drive the heavy traffic off the roads. Cr. Broadbelt said they did not want to do that, hut to get compensation for damage done. He heard of one lorry driver who said that it would pay him to pay the'Council £IOO a year to run on the roads provided they were in good order. The Chairman: We want to control the heavy traffic, not to expel it. Cr. Ryder: The Government is the only one who can expel it by reducing railway freights. The Clerk said it was a pity they could not get a uniform by-law on the subject of heavy traffic. This closed the discussion, it being understood the revision would he kept in view.