Emphatically spontaneous was the Matamata County Council's endorsement last Friday of a circular from the Stratford Borough Council asking for support for the latter body's protest to the Government against recordbreaking motor trips over public roads. The Borough Council stated that to quash this practice by enforcing their own by-laws local bodies would need a costly staff of inspectors, and therefore appeal was being made to the Government. If allowed to continue, the most dangerous form of speeding would assuredly result in some terrible accident. The county chairman, Mr. J. W. Anderson, remarked that in view of the great danger to pedestrians and the general users of the roads from such motor exhibitions, he failed to understand why the Mayor of Auckland accorded his welcome to record-break-ers on their arrival in his city.
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Matamata Record, Volume XV, Issue 432, 7 May 1923, Page 4
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