ROAD MANNERS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 68, 29 September 1939, Page 4

ROAD MANNERS

Sir, —It is with some trepidation' that? I venture to re-open the question of the remarkable observance of the traffic regulations as carried out by the citizens oi,! Whakatane. Yet I feel in the" interests of the motor driver that I must raise my still small voice. Driving down the Strand last Wednesday I pulled up behind two other vehicles which were apparently waiting for someone on the pedestrian crossing to move on. To my surprise I discovered by craning my head round the windscreen that it Avas two of the town's businessmen, so-call 'intelligensia' engaged in earnest conversation while the traffic lined up to wait their pleasure. I sounded my horn, one of the great men looked up carelessly, and then proffered a careless wavo-on with his hand as lie cozed slowly towards the pavement. Verily the age of Autocrats is with us still. Yours etc. URIAH KEEP.

| (In connection with a letter from l | our correspondent Mr G. T.. Bathe we have interviewed the postmaster Mr L. G. Wood ? who states that the writer was under a mis-apprehen-sion in supposing that the package he complained o;8 was despatched byAir Mail. What happened was this: The parcel was sent on the 22nd inst by Express transit. It arrived in Whakatane on the Saturday evening and as there is no night staff was not sorted till Monday morning, when it was despatched by special messenger,, and dePvered at the home of addressee. The postmaster explains that the week-end break caused the delay, but that under ordin ary circumstances the parcel came by the quickest route possible. E^l).