ROAD COURTESY
Motor-service drivers on the Gis-borne-Napier road were complimented warmly by a southerner at Gisborne shortly after completing a trip to Poverty Bay. Thig traveller was commenting upon tho varying degrees of courtesy met with on the road, and instanced his own experience on the Eimutaka section, where he was crowded into the water-table by a descending car, despite the well-established rule that cars on the upgrade are accorded a clear run. Other incidents in which drivers had shown a lack of courtesy were discussed, and the southerner remarked that there was a lamentable lack of knowledge, on the part' of many travellers, of what was due to other users of the highways. "There is
one road on which one. finds the greatest. courtesy, though, and that is the Gis--borne-Napier route," he added. "There, the. courtesies of the. road are fulfilled most strictly, in tho main, and the service men in particular are scrupulous-, ly careful and good-natured. Not onlyi 4o they handle their oars with consummate care, but they make every allow-1 anco for lack of experience on. the part of private drivers, and I have never known them to pass another car in' trouble without offering assistance."
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 65, 17 March 1928, Page 18
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200ROAD COURTESY Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 65, 17 March 1928, Page 18
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