GRASS ON ROADS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 60, 21 December 1935, Page 7

GRASS ON ROADS.

danger to motor TRAFFIC. (Special to tlie “ Guardian.”) WANGANUI, Dec. 19. “Five lots of glass have been swept up,” stated the report of the patrol presented at the meeting of the Automobile Association (Wanganui) las night. A visiting motorist to Wanganui, in the course, of a tour oc tile North Island, remarked this morning that never at any time in his raotorino- experience, which was extensno over the United States, tlio Continent, Great Britain, and Australia, had he seen so much broken glass on highways as he saw in and near Wanganui. He said the offence was a very serious one in the States and on the Continent, and wondered why the authorities m New Zealand did not do more to enforce the law on persons who were tho cause of making the roads dangerous to other traffic. “On parts ol the Continent,” the motorist said, “if a, car is seen passing glass lying on the roadway, the driver is more often than not imprisoned.” He added that other roads over which lie had travelled and on which he had noticed a considerable quantity of glass, were through the outskirts of Wellington northward and through, the Alanawatu district.