KEEP TO THE LEFT

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 16, 19 July 1923, Page 7

KEEP TO THE LEFT

FAVOURED BY MUNICIPAL

CONFERENCE,

CBT TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.!

CHUISTCHURCH, 18th July.

A communication from the New Zealand Automobile Association was submitted to the Municipal Association of New Zealand Conference to-day, suggesting there should be uniform by.laws requiring pedestrians to keep to the left of the footpath. The New Zealand Counties' Association also wrote stating that it was in favour of the association's suggestion. The chairman (Mr.. J. A. Fiesher) stated that Christehurch had - a bylaw requiring pedestrians to keep to the left, but it was one of the biggest, nuisances with which the council had to deal. To enforce the bylaw the council would require an army of uniforcned inspectors. Mr. G. Baildon (Auckland) said that Auckland had a bylaw requiring pedestrians to keep to the right. In Wellington the bylaw required people to keep to the left as was the case in Christehurch. He thought there should b-s uniformity of bylaws relating to tlia subject, and Auckland was 'inclined to .come in wi^h Christehurch" and Wellington. • "

Mr. H. L. Tapley (Dunedin) said that as a conference he thought they should affirm a principle of either keeping to the right or to the left. He moved that the conference affirm the principle of a uniform bylaw, and that it should be included in the - Municipal Corporation Act. .-'-"

Mr. W. H. Nicholson pointed out that the Automobile Association -had a. very cogent reason in asking- for a uniform bylaw to force pedestrians to keep to the left. Besides providing for the safety of the general public such a measure would relieve motorists of no small amount of responsibility. Mr. Tapley's motion was earned,' and it was further decided that the rule of the footpath should be to keep to the left.