TRAPS FOR MOTORISTS
ARRANGEMENTS NOT TO
BE DISCLOSED
“Speaking personally, gentlemen, I do not think that anyone lias a right to know where we set traps for motorists who break the law by speeding,” remarked the Mayor of Lower Hutt, Mr. W. T. Strand, after a letter, from the Automobile Club bad been read at a meeting of the Borough Council last night. Tiie Automobile Club asked that permission Ijc granted to one of their men io accompany the council’s official observer and check the times of motorists during tiie coming race days at Trentham, the letter adding that it was understood the council had decided to set traps on those days.
Councillor Teague agreed with the Mayor on the matter. “I’m a motorist,” he said, “and I do not think it right that anyone should know where we set out traps. If they did know, then others would probably get to hear of it, with the result that motorists would slow down when they thought they were being detected.”
Councilor Hunt moved that members of the council should have no knowledge of the days the traps for motorists were to be laid or tbe location of them. This was agreed to.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 97, 19 January 1926, Page 8
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202TRAPS FOR MOTORISTS Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 97, 19 January 1926, Page 8
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