FARMERS' HEAVY TRAFFIC.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21233, 13 July 1932, Page 11

FARMERS' HEAVY TRAFFIC.

APPEAL FOR LENIENCY* INSTRUCTION TO INSPECTOR [from otto own correspondent.] HASHLTON, Tuesday. i'The period of depression is causing motor-car owners to be more sparing in the nse of their vehicles, but on the other hand there are more trucks operating than ever before," wrote Mr. W. E. Nicholson., traffic inspector in his report to the Wain kato County Council to-day. "Quite at number 'of previously unemployed men hava secured second-hand trucks and ard using them for carrying goods of one kind and another.''

Mr. Nicholson said h© had adopted an attitude of leniency in connection with minor breaches of the regulations. If hd were to prosecute in every case detected, he would practically live in courthouses.Mr. T. H. Henderson expressed the opinion that every leniency should be extended to farmers. He said they paid double through the benzine tax and the rates and it would be a scandal if they were prosecuted every time they exceeded the weight limits by a hundredweight o< two. The engineer, Mr.- A. A. Woodward, said some farmers were competing with carriers in transporting freight. The car* riers had to pay heavy traffic licence fees and these had to be added to theif charges. The chairman, Mr. W< Newell, said farmers could take out quarterly licences for the periods when they transported fertiliser and other heavy loads. # ? It was decided to ask the traffic inspector to be as lenient as possible with farmers infringing the heavy weight traffic restrictions.