TRAFFIC INSPECTORS

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 221, 14 June 1930, Page 13

TRAFFIC INSPECTORS

Sir,—My experience of traffic officers has been vastly different from that of your correspondent in to-day’s “Dominion,” as I have always found them most courteous and helpful, but then it has been my policy to treat them with the respect to which they are entitled, and I am willing to admit that they know better than I how the traffic should be regulated. Motorists who complain of the traffic officers are those who have been badly bitten by the motion bug. Once they get in a car they must be on the move the whole time and regard any attempt to delay them as a piece of unwarrantable impertinence. I must confess to having broken all the rules since I took up motoring, but the traffic officers in each instance have explained clearly to me where I was wrong and why, for which information I was sincerely grateful. Some motorists, however, are so constituted that they must attempt to argue the point, in which case, of course, the traffic officer, who is a very busy man, passes the case on to the magistrate for his decision. I think the City Council is to be congratulated on the type of men who have undertaken this work as they are most tactful and obliging. —I am, etc., DEAR ENEMY. Wellington, June 12.