mated that the total losses sustained by tho shipping companies anil the importers at all the porta in New Zealand, of which Wellington is notoriously the worst in this respect, amount* to; £40,000 or £50,000 a year, but a merchant seen yesterday said the larger of these figures was far balow tho mark. In his own experience the louts .a amounted to fully 2 per cent. op. the value of the goods imported, and In the long run became n definite charge upon j the consumers who had to pay the cost of increased freights and additional insurance. No one seems ready with" ft remedy. The shipping companies doubtless find it more convenient to: insure! themselves against loss than to Institute prosecutions, and so the pillaging it passed on to the cost of living. ! BECKT.nss DBIYJXO.- - • i The remarks made by the Coroner yes«s« terday at the conclusion of Uio rn the victims oT the Sandon motor Cql-., lision should move the authorities raj take some effective steps to stpp the! reckless driving so prevalent throughput,6 the whole of the Wellington province. " Tn Wellington eitv the r.eril i 4" simn'fc' as common as it is in the country di*v trietf, and yet unless an accident witlil very serious results occurs, a prosecu- ! tion for excessive speed i« of fhi rare't occurrence. Cars are habitually driven ' in the ■ streets nt nw>f»da varving from ' fifteen to thirty miles an hour, and::t along the country roads a i'riw mit'tj lag behind unless he travels at miles an hour or more. On occasion"; purtieularlv in journeying to rune meet- 1 ings and similar gatherinoOfifty mUM? an hour is hv no means p« r'"'oint"TT speed maintained for considerable <U»* Jdggfc JhyjollMj! ■ " ■ "■ ■ - -ii m
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 June 1920, Page 5
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