LECTURES ON TRAFFIC
Attendance Of Offenders
(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, Nov. 14. Municipal and motoring bodies had responded favourably to an Auckland City Council suggestion tost there should be compulsory lectures for traffic offenders, the Commissioner of Transport (Mr A. E. Forsyth) said today. The Minister of Transport (Mr McAlpine), and the Transport Department were now considering the suggestion. he said. Mr Forsyth said his department had circularised municipal and country associations, the Traffic Institute, motor unions and other national bodies interested in motoring. “The reaction has been quite good,” he said. “It would require a law to make attendance at these lectures compulsory. For a start we would try out non-compul-sory lectures in a gradual way and see bow they work out."
Mr Forsyth said that on occasions some magistrates had said they could, with advantage, send offenders to some sort of traffic course. M compulsory attendance does eventuate there would be no distinction between those sent by the Court and those who attend voluntarily, he said.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29671, 15 November 1961, Page 11
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