TWO REGULATIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 87, 9 October 1937, Page 10

TWO REGULATIONS

ONE GOOD, THE Q THER BAD

Generally, speakers t the Automobile Association dinner;, last night did not speak of particular but two were specially mpitfioned. One was described as excellent, the other as a direct cause of accitient.

"One excellent regulation enforced in Wellington, but not'- sigen in other parts of the world," saicj JVtr. E. A. Batt, chairman of the executavej of the association, "is that motor-jcars must stop at the rear of tram stows, f I hope that in the interests of pedestrians that rule will never be relaxed.") ; The Town Clerk, Mr.i E. P. Norman, did not praise the 30-mjte'. limit in city areas when it was applied to intersections. ••

"More than half the accidents in Wellington take place at fi intersections, largely due to the regulation, which permits drivers to go ;»over them at 30 miles an hour," he -said. "I have never been able to understand that regulation:"

Mr. Norman describe*}". ;the outraged feelings of a sound cjtfsen who, slowing down to a gallop [when he eventually reached the footpath, realised that there was no way qf getting at the motorist, no ground of action against him, because the reguf ition said that he could do 30. and b<> had done no more than 30.