"TWELVE MILES AN HOUR."

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19859, 1 February 1928, Page 14

"TWELVE MILES AN HOUR."

Sir,—May I point. out that my letter was intended to convey a- plain statement of facts? The way in which Mr. H. T. Davis airily brushes aside the present decreasing amount of horse-drawn vehicles as practically non-existent is amusing, if not convincing. It is quite possible that, in an isolated, instance, a tyatnear in making up time has been able, by doing. 30 miles an hour, to defeat his shuttling in and out in front of it, but it does not follow that all tramcars proceed at that rate. They do not. As jr. inquiries as to motor-car mishaps, the evidence for the offending motorist is almost invariably that the car was doing only from 10 to 12 miles an hour, I fail to see why exception should be taken to the restrictions imposed by the Mount Eden Borough Council. Twelve miles an hour is dangerous enough —that is, of course, if we can accept the motorist's evidence as trustworthy. But, of course, I, ' like many others, as Mr. Davis puts it, am no judge of speed. I have grave doubts, however, of the veracity of the ordinary motorist/ *••'> •• . . Luther.