TOWN SPEED LIMIT.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 402, 8 April 1937, Page 4

TOWN SPEED LIMIT.

Strict Observance Enjoined By Magistrate. I , • “This regulat-on mu* t be strictly I observed,” commenfiedi Mr W. 11. • Woodward, S.M., in the Straitford Goura this morning, v.'hen fining I Frank Bocock, of Ngaere, £l, with | co: ts 12s, for driving his motor car in | Broadway at a speed exceeding 30 • miles an hour. j The Main Highways Inspector, Mr I A. E. Ansell, saidi that, about noon I on February 20 he saw r.ocouk travel ling from Ngaere toward Stra ford. Ai the Broadway and Opunake Road i.ilersection he checked defend-ar.t’s tpeed, and found .hat from that ; ? oint

ttniil nearly approaching Fenton | Street defendant was travelling at a I spred of from 40 to 50 miles an hour. : The only .thing in his favoui 'V’as that i he slowed down slightly at the Opui nake Road intersection. There was a ! considerable amount of traflb about * at the time. ; To the Magistrate, defendant said i ?hat he was held up at Ngaere and ; had to get to S ratford in a hu»ry. He * did not think he was doing more than •35 miles an hour. There wa-s nat ftiueh traffic a.t the time. | In answer -to the Magistrate, the I Inspector saidi the speed of .the car jWas checked by a speedometer.