"KEEP TO THE LEFT"

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 106, 1 November 1923, Page 8

"KEEP TO THE LEFT"

WELLINGTON A MONTH BEHIND.

Long before the commencement of the sittings of the Municipal. Conference at Christchurch recently, at which conference a general agreement. was reached among delegates that "keep to the left" should be the footpath rule for New Zealand main towns, the Wellington City Council had talked the matter over on quite a few occasions, and,-on the vote, had shown itself favourably disposed towards the proposal, but with a proviso. The "keep to the left" rule, councillors considered was in the interests of ■ the safety of pedestrians, and should therefore be adopted in Wellington, if and when other towns fell into line, in order that there should-be no confusion in the minds of Wellington people away from home or visitors walking in Wellington. At the Municipal Conference it was decided that the new rule should be generally adopted in the keep to the right" towns on Ist October, and municipal bodies laid their plans accordingly. Auckland, for instance, has probably fairly well settled down to the new rule, and walks to the left when it remembers, or in streets where pavement markings render it impossibe to forget, but. Wellington's plans have apparently been held up, and the old rule, or no rule at all, still does duty. _ Even so. Wellington's hopes of Dominion footpath rule uniformity may yet be realised. • <y"