GLASS ON ROADS

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 72, 18 December 1935, Page 7

GLASS ON ROADS

Danger to Motor Traffic Dominion Special Service. Wanganui, December 17. "Five lots of glass have been swept up,” stated the report of the patrol presented at the meeting of the Automobile Association (Wanganui) last night. A visiting motorist to Wanganui, iu the course of a tour of the North Island, remarked to “The Dominion” this morning that never at. any time in his motoring experience. which was extensive over the United States, the Continent, Great Britain, and Australia, had he seen so. much broken glass on highways as he saw in and near Wanganui. He said the offence was a very serious one in the States and on the Continent, and wondered why the authorities in New Zealand did not do more to enforce the law on persons who were the cause of making the roads dangerous to other traffic. “On parts of the Continent,” the motorist said, “if a ear is seen passing glass lying on the roadway, the driver is more often than not imprisoned.” He added that other roads over which he had travelled and on which he hail noticed a considerable quantity of glass, were through the outskirts of Wellington northward and through the Manawatu district.