SPEED OF MOTOR CARS

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 2775, 25 July 1907, Page 5

SPEED OF MOTOR CARS

t DISCUSSION AT COUNTIES’ CONFERENCE.

A Northern delegate to tlie Counties’ Conference recently held at Wellington, thus unburdened himself: “Let us have a ‘go’ at motor cars and the monomaniacs or motormaniaes who drive in them. They go so fast that if yon wink your eye they are out of sight, so eager are they to make records. Thie fellows with those blinkers on —the chaps who drive—don’t seem able to see anything through those blinkers. I’ve timed them myself, and I’m prepared to swear to forty-five miles an hour. T suppose if those chaps who drove at that rate went into the box they’d swear it was only ten miles. They’re very dangerous.” A motoring delegate from Pahiatua said there was only one ear in the colony that could travel forty miles an hour. The Northerner: “That’s the one I saw!” (Shouts of laughter). The motorist declared that it was the public that was to blame for all the trouble, and not the motorists. “How’s that?” he was asked. His reply was that the public had only to hold up its hand and the motorist would stop. He could stop the car within ten yards. “But he won’t stop!” cried delegates. "He'd have to stop if there was a hole in front of him,” retorted the “But the public hasn’t rime to stop and dig a hole!” exclaimed a delegate, amid further shouts of laughter. Recovering from its hilarity, the Conference, on the motion of the Rangitikei delegate, agreed on the vocesi: “That the Government enact provisions general to the colony for the regulation and control of motor cars.”—Post.