Speed Limits
Regulations Allow 35 on Open Road It is not generally known that the speeds provided under the new Domin-ion-wide motor regulations allow 35 miles an hour on the open road, and that this speed limit now applies, although, in some cases, a lower local speed limit was imposed. Until local bodies erect yellow diamond signs denoting speed limits, the innumerable restrictions which applied before the gazetting of the Motor Vehicle Regulations, 1928, are inoperative. The Public Works Department has expressed the opinion that all existing speed limits are invalid, and the local bodies have taken the hint and are prosecuting only for dangerous driving. Although the only limits nationally allowed are 35, 25, 15 and 10 miles an hour, any local authority can apply to the Public Works Department to have recognised a local restriction, and this must be notified by the yellow and black signs. The Under-Secretary of the Public Works Department notified the A.A.A. at its last meeting that, at the time of writing, no local authority had so applied.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 384, 19 June 1928, Page 7
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174Speed Limits Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 384, 19 June 1928, Page 7
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