AN ULTIMATUM

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 184, 2 May 1929, Page 10

AN ULTIMATUM

MAGISTRATE ON DANGEROUS DRIVING By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hastings. May 1. "I have in mind the endorsement of drivers’ licenses in cases dealing with negligent and dangerous driving and speeding,” stated the Magistrate, Mr. Mowlem, in the Magistrate’s Court this morning, when he issued a warning to a certain section of the motoring community. “I think the time has long since gone when the mere matter of a fine had any effect. It would seem that some men don’t think their licenses are of value or they wouldn’t jeopardise them as they do. I want to make it perfectly clear that I will, so far as I am able, protect everyone—pedestrians, motorists, and cyclists alike. I am of the opinion that quite a number of motorists think that so long as they are in a car they can do what they like and that they can make the car travel long and be in the right. They can do no such thing. In future lam considering the endorsement, and even cancellation, of licenses. I know it will be a hard job, but I hope to do away with the man who earns the unenviable reputation among his fellow men of being a Toad hog.’ You now know where the Bench stands in this matter.”