MOTORISTS CRITICISED
SLOWNESS OF DRIVERS The critical eyes of a visitor arm quick to notice a country’s customs, but few •are venturesome enough to make their views public. An exception is Mr. L. C. Bowen, a Chicago Y.M.C.A. secretary, who, with his wife, is making a motoring tour of the Dominion. “Motor-car drivers in New Zealand are crazy. We. had several narrow squeaks in the North Island,” Mr. Bowen said to the Christchurch Times. “The way they ‘drive is a scream. In America, on tho main roads, minimum speed limits of round about 45 miles an hour are imposedi Drive slower than that and you get pinched. Here, they just barge along. I’ou evidently take the view that to drive slow is safer, but in the States it lias been proved that the slow driver gets into all the trouble.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18333, 27 February 1934, Page 11
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