WELLINGTON TOPICS
| WELLINGTON'S DEATH ROLL. i STREET TRAFFIC. (Special Correspondent.) Wellington, Jan. 28. It has been left to the Wellington Automobile Club to stir the newspapers into protests and the local authorities into promises concerning the unnecessary perils of the city's street traffic. A deputation from the club waited on the by-laws committee of the City Council on Friday—impelled, it has been unkindly suggested, by a guilty conscience —to recommend a number of precautions which the members of the club thought would reduce the toll of killed and wounded. These include street widening, better recognised crossing places, the curtailment of carriers' and taxidrivers' stands, the appointment of more patrolmen and the prosecution of pedestrians who walked aimlessly about the streets. Reminded by the chairman of the committee that it was an offence for a pedestrian to allow himself to be knocked by a, vehicle a member of the deputation exclaimed "That's what we want here I" A strict enforcement of the city council's traffic regulations is urged.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 January 1920, Page 5
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