THAT SILENT POLICEMAN.

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6601, 19 May 1925, Page 4

THAT SILENT POLICEMAN.

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —I read the published report of the Borough Council’s last meeting, and note that a councillor drew attention to the fact that the Silent Cop had been off duty for some time. I am satisfied that this silent object is about as useful to traffic control as a fifth wheel to a motor car would be. What is required is a live policeman or a Council who will accept the control of the traffic in our streets before the accident happens. Every day we read of serious and fatal accidents caused by reckless and dangerous driving. It is astonishing how indifferent our Borough Council appears to be in regard to traffic control and public safety in our streets, while in all other borough and cities in New Zealand the local authorities consider it their urgent duty to control the traffic in the interests of public safety. The erection of a movable dummy policeman in the centre of the town can not be accepted as having completed traffic supervision. I am, etc., MAN IN THE STREET.