OPEN SPEED LIMIT

Press, Volume C, Issue 29554, 1 July 1961, Page 10

OPEN SPEED LIMIT

Motor Unions Disagree

The South Island Motor Union should press for aj speed limit of 60 mites an : hour on open roads, said Mr C. Harvey (Southland) when the executive committee of the union met yesterday. He could not support the North Island Motor Union's recommendataion for a speed limit of 55 miles an hour I because only an extra five' miles was not an appreci-i able difference, he said. The president (Mr G. W. ' Ferens) said he was sur-' prised that the North Island l union had announced its support for 55 miles an hour. When a joint standing committee of the North and; South Island unions was; formed it was decided that all questions of national j policy should come from the joint standing committee, not from the unions. “The publicity is unfortunate. for it looks as if the South Island's claim for 60 ■ miles an hour will not be suoported by. the North Island. Mr R. W. Martyn: If thi' continues to happen the join! standing committee will be 'of no use. Mr Ferens: I do not want

Mr Ferens: I do not want the North Island Motor Union's action featured, but they deserve a rap over the knuckles for this. The meeting resolved to inform the North Island union that it had broken the agreement between the two unions.