"KEEP TO THE LEFT."

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18455, 19 July 1923, Page 8

"KEEP TO THE LEFT."

RULE : FOR , PEDESTRIANS,,, '^|| UNIFORM BY-LAW WANTED. *\A AUCKLAND WOULD CO-OPERATE, ,'f [BV TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] ■ r| ! CHKISTCHUKCH. Wednesday. "f\ A communication from the New Zea-» i> ! land Automobile Association -was snb- ]|| mitted to the conference of the Municipal \ '■■'/ Association of New Zealand to-day, sug'.'.""' gegting that there should be uniform by. ; l H3 laws requiring pedestrians to keep to the ' '1 left of the footpath. The New Zealand ' ' Counties' Association also wrote stating ' ! that the association was in favour of the ||pj suggestion. • £.i,l The chairman, Mr. J. A. Flesher r, stated that Christchurch had by-laws re' : & quiring pedestrians to keep to the left I * but it was one of the biggest' nuisances • -,' with which the council had to deal. TV enforce the by-law the council would re^!§ quire an army of uniformed inspectors.vlSff j Mr. G. Baildon (Auckland) said Auck- ff ! I land had a by-law requiring pedestrians to keep to.the right. In Wellington tha I by-law required people to keep to ths left as was the case in Christchurch. Ha thought there should be uniformity of by-ri;; laws relating to the subject and Auckland was inclined to come in with Christchurch and Wellington. Mr. H. L. Tapley (Dunedin) said that, fl| as a conference, he thought they should f affirm a principle of either keeping to'; ''- the right or. to the left. fl° moved that !■ the conference affirm the principle of '£ 1;; uniform by-law, and that it should belli included in the Municipal Corporations Act..- ■ ■ «'.'.•''. ''"''A' Mr. W. H. Nicholas pointed out that tft the Automobile Association had. a very ■?:: cogent reason in asking for a uniform by- v.law' to force pedestrians to keen to th«-' left. One prominent citizen had lost his */! life throuch stepping off the footpath in. 'di the direction in which he had happened 0 to be proceeding on the footpath. Be* ;lsides providing for the safety of the v.: general public, such a measure would relieve motorists of no small amount 'of ■■: responsibility. ' '- ;.?Jp£ The motion was carried, and it 'was;.: further cecicea tliat tne rule of the footpath should be " Keep to the left."' ;'■;■: