HORSE AS ANACHRONISM.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 184, 6 August 1934, Page 6

HORSE AS ANACHRONISM.

A vCertain peer demanded that the lioreo should. be expelled froiri the streets of London; this, .'he said, was one infallible euro for traffic congestion (says the "Manchester Guardian"). Another " peer retorted with spirit that "the owner of a - horse has just ae miich right to go into the street as anybody who hat* got a motor oar and think*, the whole place "belongs to him." Alas! there are 710 "rights" to-day in such matters; if the only "right" of the pedestrian whose feet first made the roade is now to keep himself alive on them as long as he can, the only "right" of the horse and hfs owner is to "go" quietly" whenever a sufficient number of motorists combine to regard liiin as an intolerable obstruction, Such ia "the rule of democracy, or the many-headed, when the many-headed have bought themselves motor cars. Perhaps we have not quite reached that stage yet. The horse, may be a nuisance in traffic'but, as various members of the House of Lords pointed out, he is not so great a nuisance as cruising taxi cabs and multitudes of private carrying few or no passengers. Ultimately we may reach a point when the only vehicle's allowed in the centre of towns will be those run, for freight or passengera, jby the municipality.