"THE MOTOR HOG."

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 104, 3 May 1923, Page 11

"THE MOTOR HOG."

(Tn the Kditor.) Sir.—ln the ' name of ordinary humanity, where does the license and latitude of one individual cease and where does protection to life and limb begin? Only this morning I witnessed an incident that made one shudder. Travelling by a Ilerne ay tram car, at the junction of Pattcson Street and Franklin Road, a motor car rushed across the road and missed a boy 'by about three feet, who happened to jump the right way. The boy's attention being directed evidently to avoiding the tram from the opposite direction, he did not observe the car. Yet, seeing this, the motorist did not in the least cheek his speed. He assumed, as is often the practice, that it was for the pedestrian to avoid him. The motormnn. I may say, was most emphatic in his condemnation, and remarked to mc "This is what we see all day." Should the law not be made more drastic, and imprison without the option such inhuman monsters as these. A pig, it is said, is known by its grunt, and one is inclined to associate at times the abrupt snort of the motor with swinedom, and exclaim, "Here comes a pig!"—l am, etc., ARTHUR CUMMINGS.