BOROUGH EMPLOYEES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13636, 17 March 1915, Page 9

BOROUGH EMPLOYEES.

PROTECTION FROM MOTOR TRAFFIC ASKED KOK.

"I have been re< ■•.!> s - - d l>v ;i ni;iu'" r of your employees '<> uriti; di;r-' ::; _.; your attention to tin; fact that their lives are endangered <' v Uy tiny by the careless '"and tnoUghik'ss ::■:/:.!•:• of a i^ient inttny motor-e; v drivers • ni not'cyclirtts,"* stated Mi T> . W. :' i ,-.^.n<tii, secretary of ihe (W:::- ;i Laborers' Union,,, .m a letter to the wv.niv^h Co- :';. oil last night". "Thr.sc people h;:vc tiu: habit of driving a:td ri'linj; aloii'i the tramline, and the iniiy thing thiy \-.l\l get off sis when meeting the linm oi 1 another motor-car. As you jdv. iiware, one of your employees wr.ij rim down the other day, and it was i/idced a miracle he was not killed. Tin men who have been doing the Irani lines sinrc have also had very narrow escapes'. 0.-v man only had time to- jump rlear of a motox % -car and leaw his > hovel, 'which the car ran over : anuther man had a car run so, close to him that it brushed his clbtlies: if the man had happened to have stepped aside, or the car deviated, he would -have been run down." The writer suggested that m framing the by-law^ to govern, the traffic the Council should insert something that would prevent the lives of their employees being endangered. The Mayor: I think^onr, new by-laws provide for this. The clerk : Ten miles an hour. O. Wade: They don't, go any faster ' iu-ie than anywhere else. (V. Bright*: A little better under ecuIml elsewhere, perhaps. It. was decided to reply that the proposed new by-laws would deal with the matter.