MOTOR LORRIES AT KOPAKI.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XVIII, Issue 1856, 1 September 1923, Page 5

MOTOR LORRIES AT KOPAKI.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Would you kindly allow me space in your. valuable paper to make some remarks in regard to a meeting of the County Council some little tune back. The County member for this district said at this meeting that every family within a radius of ten, miles were complaining about the lorries breaking the speed limit ,and referred to the danger to the travelling public, and making ill-feeling among those unknown to one another. As a new settler in this district and from a district where motor lorries of all sizes and weight are running, to any part of the country, I have some experience to the speed they do run and should run. As 1 have the only family on the road between Kopaki station and the cross roads at the school, a distance of four miles, and my children going to school pass the lorries twice a day for nearly every day in the week, .1 can honestly say that there arc no more careful drivers in the district or outside it, and it is a credit to the owner and drivers. for the way the lorries are handled on such a bad road. The only piece of road that they can get any speed up is in front of my homestead, for a distance of 300 yards. I have taken the time twice and found they run about miles to the hour. In other parts of the road you could walk along side of them. I am quite safe in saying there is not a settler along the road or near it could or would complain for the kind way the lorry drivers treat them by giving them a lift to and from Kopaki station. As for myself I can no more than thank the owner and driver of the lorry that met my family and belongings and took them to their new home in the bad weather that we experienced about the beginning of July.—l am, etc.. A. WILLIAMS. Kopaki.