PETONE SPEED LIMITS

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 287, 4 September 1928, Page 3

PETONE SPEED LIMITS

PROTEST FROM MOTORISTS. That the 15-mile speed limit on the bitumen track through I’etone borough, while the limit was 20 miles per hour in Lower Hutt, was absurd, was the contention of Mr. 11. .1. Stott at the executive meeting of the Wellington Automobile Club last night. They only put men out on race days to eateli motorists money, he said. He would not mind it they did the job properly as a borough. Mr. 1. V. Wilson moved (hat the executive write to the I’etone Borough Council requesting them to raise the speed hn’ l * to 20 miles, and if they did not see fit.to do so, that they be notified that the club would take steps to test the reasonableness or otherwise of the speed limit. Mr. Wilson quoted the step taken by the M airarapa Association in regard to Greytown, in which the Supreme Court upheld the association. ’['he secretary suggested that the request should be preferred before threatening to test the matter. Mr. Wilson agreed that perhaps they had better be tactful in the matter first. It was decided to write asking for the limit to be increased to 20 miles,