NEW SPEED LIMIT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 222, 31 August 1936, Page 5

NEW SPEED LIMIT.

Traffic Inspectors To Be i , Exempted AMENDMENT TO LAW. Press Association —Copyright. Wellington, To=day. Amending legislation is to be ■■inj produced shortly to exempt motoii ours driven by police and traffic officers from the 30-miles-an-liour speed limit prescribed for town and city areas in the Motor Vehicles Ainind r ment Act passed thjs session. An announcement on these lines was made on Saturday, by the Minister of Transport (Hon. It. Semple). "On looking into the position, I find that, according to the strict interpretation of the law, the speed limit applies without any exceptions," said tho Minister. "When the legislation was drafted it wrs considered that, ' v.ith the use of sirens and other 1

—methodseaTrd~the fact that all motor by number plates, it would not be necessary to ... provide special exemption for traffic ~ . officers, but in view of representations which have been made to me that the speed limit may stand in the way of the administration of the law, I am arranging for the necessary amendment to be mada in the Statutes Revision Bill, which will be introduced In the House of Representatives this session. It is obvious,.oil course, that officers controlling the traffic on the roads must have the right to exceed the speed limit when it is nccesary for them to do so to catch an offender."