SEVERE PENALTIES.
HEAVY TRAFFIC SPEEDING. MAGISTRATE'S COMMENTS. "This is an otfienco which 1 feel must lie put down with severe penalties, because so many drivers would bo apt to 'get away with it,' " said Air. W. H. Woodward, S.AI., iu Iho Alagistrate's Court in Wellington, when dealing with the driver of a motor-lorry who pleaded guilty to exceeding tho speed limit for his particular class of vehicle, which weighed nine tons. "Tho roads cannot be watched all the time," tho magistrate said, "so that when an offence is discovered thcro must be a fairly severe penalty." 'The Alain Highways Board officer said that the driver of the lorry had admitted an average, speed of 24 miles an hour between Jolmsonville and Tawa Flat. The speed limit imposed on his lorry, by its weight, was 14.4 miles an hour. The board, lie said, regarded tho case as an important one. It was tho first actually taken by tho board itself—previously action was taken by the police department. Tho magistrate imposed a fine of £4.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20987, 25 September 1931, Page 12
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