Motor-Cycle Restrictions.
The New Zealand Road Safety Council notified the Waitotara County Council yesterday that at its quarterly meeting, early in March, it will consider proposals as to whether or not it is in the interests of road safety to impose restrictions on the use of motor-cycles. In view of the serious number of accidents involving motorcycles, the council decided to forward a recommendation to the Minister of Transport that pillion riding should be abolished arfcl a speed limit imposed. The Patea County Council, at its meeting yesterday, was of opinion that the problem of motor-cycles and their speed was a matter for experts to decide. Tne Patea Borough Council was more drastic, taking the view (that motor-cycles should be barred from the roads.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 38, 15 February 1939, Page 6
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124Motor-Cycle Restrictions. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 38, 15 February 1939, Page 6
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