PEDESTRIANS' RIGHTS
(To tf-.o Editor.)
Sir.—According to the "Post's" report of part of the meeting: of the North 1 Islam. Motor Union, we pedestrians, who ' form probably four-fifthis of the general; public, are in great danger of losing our unquestionable right to use' and cross our public thoroughfares. I say "unquestion-.-able" because I well remember Mr. C. C.i Kettles—then senior Stipendiary Magis-" trate in Auckland—laying it down a generation ago that any pijdestian had the' same right to use or. cross any street as the driver of any vehicle,-provided the pedestrian took reasonable precautions, l'urther, that a 'drivers-duty-did ■■not end - with yelling at a person in front !pf him; if the person were' deaf,, drunk, or careless the onus was on-the driver to pull up—and avoid an accident. This cool assumption of control of our thoroughfares by the motoring and /carrying section makes one comprehend bow the common lands were filched from the peasantry of England.—l am, etc., . '
RATEPAYING WORKER.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 49, 28 February 1927, Page 8
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