HOLDING UP TRAFFIC

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6812, 16 January 1929, Page 3

HOLDING UP TRAFFIC

FARMER’S IDEA OF A JOKE.

Motorists as a body suffer a lot of abuse but the majority of those enjoying the privilege of driving a car today conform to the highway rules and regulations and do all they can to make road travel safe. On the other hand there are others, the minority, who fairly take charge of every highway and make merry at some one clso’s expense and give cause for the abuse which is piled upon motorists generally. . . , . A cow farmer driving ins cream to a factory on the SansondToxton highway jesterday thought he would show a motorist that ho had a little more say as to who had the right of way and set himself out to create an obstruction, little realising that his action was unlawful. On approaching from the rear of the farmer’s cart, the motorist, when some distance off, sounded his horn, and continued doing so without receiving any acknowledgement from the farmer. The cart still occupied the middlo of the road, rendering passii;(r impossible. It was not until the car had to pull up that tho farmer drew the cart off to the correct side of tho highway. As the motorist passed the offender added to his ignorance and impudence by passing the time of the day in a manner which left no doubt upon the motorist that he had wilfully set himself out to obstruct traffic.

This incident suggests that _ all vehicles should carry in a prominent position a registered number, so that all who abuse the highway regulations may bo readily identified and called upon to account for their action.