EXCEEDING THE SPEED LIMIT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3214, 14 June 1909, Page 7

EXCEEDING THE SPEED LIMIT.

Regarding the control of motor traffic in Sydney and its vicinity, Mr W. H. Zouch, who has returned from a visit to Australia, states that considerable pains are taken by th-2 authorities to en fore the regulations as to speed, says an Auckland paper. The places favoured by muroists for the purpose of going at high rates of speed are watched by traffic inspectors, who are members of the police force, and who are in plain clothes. A mile is measured, sometimes at one part, and sometimes at another part of these favourite stretches of road. One traffic inspector is stationed at one end of the mile, and takes the time when a motor passes, and the other is at the other end, and also takes the time: notes are compared, and if the motorist has exceeded the limit, a prosecution follows. Mr Zouch was in court one day when a motorist appeared to answer a second charge of having ejtceede the speed limit and was fined £2O, the magistrate remarking that if he appeared on a third charge the fine would ba doubled. For a first offence the fine is usually £lO. The necessity for the riaid enforcement of the, speed limit may be gathered from the fact that during Mr Zouch's stay a woman and a boy wsre killed as the result of motor car accidents; the boy was Killed as be was coming out of the school grounds, and a woman was knocked down, sustained concussion of the brain, and had to be removed to the hospital, where, Mr Zouch, thought, she died.