ROAD MANNERS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 15 August 1927, Page 4

ROAD MANNERS.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —The other day I got into conversation with a motor tourist from Auckland, stopping in Hawera for lunch. After eulogistic reference to our fine roads, he went on to comment on v onr want of road manners —said he had •passed scores of cars between New Plymouth and Hawera, and only two thad edged off to pass. I told him that had he been a motor cyclist he would probablv not have had even these two exceptions. T know whereof I speak. I am on the road every day with a motor bike, and I find that, when meeting a car, the extreme edge of the tar is as well taken first as last, while cars overtaking a cyclist rush past with as little . to spare as possible, and a warning toot is seldom heard. After dark —and lam thankful to say I don’t often have the experience—l find that the only course is to go dead slow and get right off the tar or stop till the glare is past. By doing so I have escaped so far —and X am touching wood as I write.—Yours, etc,, “SAFETY FIRST.”