ROAD SPEED LIMIT
MOTOR TRADERS OPPOSED
The STew Zealand Motor Trade Association has expressed its opposition to the 40-mile-an-nour limit in, traffic speed in the following statement:—
' "The principal reason given by those in opposition to this restriction was the impossibility of enforcing it, and this objection applies as much, to a good gravel road as to one of concrete or bitumen. In our opinion, the Commissioner of Transport would have been wiser had he respected the advice of those responsible for enforcing the regulations and maintaining the roads, and accepted his defeat gracefully. "The present amendment cannot be effective while those who use the roads, those who maintain them, and those who enforce the regulations are in opposition to it. The regulations already contain too many dead letters without including more.
"The Commissioner would have been more likely to 'succeed in improving conditions of transport by securing the co-operation of those whose interests are at stake rather than by antagonising them."
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 64, 17 March 1933, Page 6
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162ROAD SPEED LIMIT Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 64, 17 March 1933, Page 6
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