SPEED LIMIT OPPOSED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17950, 30 November 1932, Page 7

SPEED LIMIT OPPOSED

MOTOR REGULATIONS CONFERENCE DISCUSSION (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this clay. The conference called by the Transport Commissioner spent the whole of yesterday afternoon in discussing the proposed alteration in motor speed regulations to provide a maximum speed of 40 miles an hour. The case for a change was put by the departmental officers, and most ol the time was taken up by opponents, who desired (lie enactment of the English law penalising only driving to the common danger. Neither the Main Highways Board nor the police wore in favor of a 40 miles an hour limit, which was defeated by a substantial majority, chiefly on the ground that enforcement was impossible. and also that the department’s estimate of the saving in the upkeep of road surfaces was illusory, and motorists were not habitually driving at speeds in excess of 40 miles an hour. The secretary advised the conference that tlm proposal bad been sent to 300 local bodies, of whom 23 per cent, expressed themselves as adverse to it, while 77 per (cent, merely received tho intimation, meaning that there was no opposition or comment to send forward.