SNOW-BALLING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 186, 7 August 1936, Page 9

SNOW-BALLING.

DANGER TO MOTORISTS.

QUESTION IN PARLIAMENT.

(By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.)

WELLINGTON, Thursday.

| In an urgent question addressed to the Minister of Transport, Mr. Semple, in the House of Representatives to-day, Mr. T. H. McCombs (Government, Lyttelton) asked if his attention had been drawn to newspaper reports of damage to motor cars and narrow escapes from serious accidents following on the throwing of snowballs at moving cars, and if the Minister would take, immediate steps to discourage this dangerous practice. The Minister replied that he realised it was a difficult thing to prevent the miscliievious practice of throwing snowballs at moving cars, which could be most dangerous. Some of the reports that had come to him stated that stones) had been wrapped up in the snowballs, and when they were thrown they caused considerable embarrassment to motorists, and were a source of dangef. The only way to get over that was to make it an offence to throw snowballs at moving cars. He did.not mind the snowballing of individuals, but picking up pebfiles with a, handful of snow and throwing them at motor cars was a different thing. He would take up the matter with the Commissioner of Transport and see what action could be taken. The police could take action under the existing law.