AT WHAT SPEED?

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 453, 7 September 1928, Page 12

AT WHAT SPEED?

MOTORISTS’ QUANDARY

POLICE AND CITY COUNC* DIFFER While the Auckland City Coii™.. maintains its traffic depart®,* With a large staff and is satis*.’, if motorists do not exceed 3 <s m V, an hour in reasonable eirctm!* stances, the police have been crS" ing dissatisfaction by prosecuthl; under the new motor regta] at |Tr? which fix the maximum stwh' 25 miles an hour. 41

j This caused some discussion at j City Council meeting last evtisC

T!,p chi « i** inspector. Mr. e rt. Hogan. gtst( . that the result of the police tuitions had t " to slow up trader the main theT ousnfares, “ ' thus cause eons*! l J on - . hit. department lound that toS

could be looked after quite effeetjw if a maximum of 30 milea an ha® were allowed, and prosecution* ng, not based on speed but on charges driving in a manner which might fca dangerous to the public. The of the council allowing 30 miles a* hour and the police prosecuting • over 25 miles an hour was cajsjjj confusion among the motorist*, jj, suggested that the position should h, discussed with the Superintendent Police, and that in the meantime th, speed sign-boards should not t, erected us required by the regulations, The Legal and By-laws Commit!*, recommended that representation* bt made to the Minister of Public Worts with a view to allowing the provision* of section 28 of the Act to govern the speed, this section merely requiring* reasonable speed, or all creatively th*| the maximum speeds in boroughs h« increased from 25 to 30 miles s* hour. This report was adopted.