EXCESSIVE SPEED
MOTORISTS APPROVE
PROPOSAL
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
CHBISTCHUBCH, September 28. The relative merits of a speed limit and the application of the term "driving to the common danger" for determining excessive speed on dustless rural roads were discussed at length at the annual meeting of the South Island Motor Union.
The Transport Department's proposals for amendment to the Motor Vehicles Act, 1924, which were before the meeting, recommended that driving to the common danger should be only an offence a« to speed. This recommendation was supported by the North Island Motor Union. Mr. F. W. Johnston, president of the South Island Motor Union, favoured a speed limit of 50 miles an hour, but by a large majority the meeting decided to support the recommendation of the Transport Department.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 78, 29 September 1934, Page 21
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EXCESSIVE SPEED
Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 78, 29 September 1934, Page 21
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