ANTI-NOISE CAMPAIGN
EXTENDED IN HOLLAND. Police action in the Netherlands is being directed toward banishing excessive traffic noise from the towns. Amsterdam’s Chief Commissioner of Police has recently invited the cooperation of 55 burgomasters and commissioners of police in neighbouring communities. Hfforts arc to be concentrated in the first place on strengthening the campaign against motor horns and motor bicycles, espeeia’ly motor-cycles with noisy exhausts. A recent revision of the Amsterdam police regulations and of the Motor and Bicycle Act has made the unjustified or excessive use of the hooter liable to punishment. Moreover the use of the so-called double-toned horns and giant sirens is from now on prohibited. Last year more than 500 motor-cyclists were sumiponed for excessive noise. But the movement, it is felt, must spread all over the country. Jf tlie towns and abo the country are to be free of motor horns and thundering motor-cycles, there must be co-opera-tion. It cannot be done by a few large towns sing'ehnnded. A greater measure of quiet and. also of public safety tlv r ough increased alertness of the ' motorist deprived of his hornpower is expected.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 43, 18 January 1935, Page 10
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187ANTI-NOISE CAMPAIGN Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 43, 18 January 1935, Page 10
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