THE REASON WHY
The kindly-looking, white-haired motorist, with benevolent eyes peering through round spectacles, slowed up, pulled his car into the kerb and beckoned the man waiting for one of the 10-minute service trams that pass along the Great South Road once in 17 minutes. “Have a lift?” he invited. The astonished pedestrian took a seat. Now, it is a peculiar thing, hut the driver seemed instantly to read his mind. “Do you know why motorists so seldom offer people a lift when they see them waiting?” he asked, then answered his own question. “Because they are afraid to take the risk. When a motorist gives a man a lift, it is a friendly act; he is not plying for hire, and he charges no fare. But the law treats him as if he did. If he had an accident, and the person he has obliged is killed, that person’s relatives could come on him for hundi’eds of pounds compensation. It’s a fool law, and there are many fool laws in this country, which has more laws, regulations and restrictions than any other country on earth. In England they say, ‘lf. you want the latest law, go to New Zealand.’ And when you come to New Zealand the laws do their best to drive you out again.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 318, 31 March 1928, Page 8
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217THE REASON WHY Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 318, 31 March 1928, Page 8
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