Rear-Vision Move
A leading article in “The Press” on Monday headed “Infantilism On Wheels” was welcomed by the president of the New Zealand Traffic Institute (Mr L. G. Amos) yesterday. The article was timely and the institute concurred fully with the suggestion that the present law was inadequate, he said. At the institute's 1966 conference a remit recommending that dangling ornaments or anything that tended to interfere with a driver's vision or concentration be prohibited had been carried and passed to the Transport Department for consideration, Mr Amos said. At the time, the Commissioner of Transport (Mr R. J. Polaschek) thought it was a matter for education rather than enforcement. The institute had confirmed its opinion last year and was firmly convinced that enforcement was the only satisfactory way to deal with the problem, Mr. Amos said. It had asked the Ministry of Transport to reconsider the earlier remit.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31880, 7 January 1969, Page 10
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