SPEEDING ON GREAT SOUTH ROAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 87, 13 April 1927, Page 7

SPEEDING ON GREAT SOUTH ROAD.

FIFTY MILES AN HOUR. i <<UMY < iiAiKMAV- "I'IVH'N. 11..■ ►].<•<•.]iiiir whi.-h .Mr. r. .V. Uh:o:-. i the chairman <>f the Mannl-aii < oumy Council. alleged ji .<il <•! "if*» indulge m when tiaielhnp The <.ri-ai Soul :i Koad is. mi lie -..id at «"..<• Minn] meeting 1111> morning, a niouaec. and K.nl l«-.cinic fi so ions J:iat the time 11■ i armed when the wiin'p lenjrth of lead iroin < nalmhu to I'apakura should i'ti patrolled hv an ii^poetor. '1 feel \cry nnca-y altont it" said Mr. Wawrs. "1 know my own knowledge of mot ot iMs a Ion;; the it "-■unlli Head at "iii miles an iionr. and as I'.lore are several s< hools alonp the routs the lives of children are in constant d:ui•jer. ]t i- a sciious matter and 1 think a jicrnuni'-nt in-pert or should l»e appointed to prose. - uie offenders. Mr. \\ atei - mentioned thai Otahuliu. Papatocloe. and Manurewa had combined ■ and lir.d an iii^]»t■ ■ tnr. hut there were ! iictuecn i]ii sc ili-uicis certain lengths of the < i ;vat Siaitii Road which the Mar'i- ; kau < iiiintv < ( iincil had control of. He ' sujrresied the council should tlu*rcfo:e subsidise t l l<- salary of t :>e present m-s]-e<tor to tlic extent of perhaps £■"»(• arid' ho <"i)i]ld do the whole l<nrili of the road from < >t.ahuhu to I'apal.ura and have autlioritv to prosecute for speeding ai any portion. *]he inspector nou traitdloil I i"We lenpth between Ot-ahnhu and I'apMI knra but there were only certain portions' where his authority to jircwnite applied.. One or two member:-. "while ajreeini; . tl.at the speeding which took place the <.real South l!oa<J a constat., danger, thought it was a connly maltc:.* and oiie asked whole the I.tms imposed l.y the < our* v. mild {.'o. The ohairiiip.ii re].lied ll.ai t.he finewould po into the general fund and tin* council would pel its proj«orl ion. A rocrnln-: : i here may not he ar.v j fine-. I Mr. Water-: <Vi m< thcic w i"1. • t .would like to h.n e half >' then'. After fun her discussion it v :»>• decide.' Ito leave the mailer In the ehairmnn. 1 t idirjp nx nilx-i s. and the engineer. w i*. i