SPEED “TRAP.”

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18598, 20 June 1930, Page 9

SPEED “TRAP.”

ACTIVITY AT DUNSANDEL. AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION MEMBERS COMPLAIN. Of the entries made in the* traffic officers’ notebooks at Dunsandel on the day of the football match. Canterbury v. England, it is said that twenty-five members of the South Canterbury Automobile Association are at present awaiting further information. The matter was brought up at last night’s meeting of the executive of the Automobile Association, when the secretary (Mr E. A. Scott) said he had received complaints from several members that the methods employed by the traffic officers were not right. Mr Scott stated that from the information he had received, it appeared that the “trap” for motorists was made about five miles this side cf Dunsandel. and drivers were stopped before 9 o’clock and after 1 o'clock. “They say that there was a rope stretched across the road, and that the officers employed other ways which were not of the right kind,” said Mr Scott. Of the Association members whojiad complained to him, there were several, said Mr Scott, who were very careful drivers, and could not understand the action that had been taken. He had heard that two cars, one of which had been proceeding along the road on three cylinders, had had their numbers taken while in a Dunsandel garage. The'chairman (Mr W. H. Orbell): “This seems to be a matter for the South Island Motor Union. No doubt many southern members will have been on the road that day.” The secretary stated that he was expecting a letter from the Canterbury Automobile Association on the matter, but this had not arrived. None of the members who had complained to him had yet received a summons. They desired, however, that the Association should take the matter up. Mr J. M. Jenkins: “We should defer consideration till the prosecutions take place.” The chairman said that the prosecutions might all be over by next meeting, and he considered it desirable that the matter should be introduced at the meeting of the Motor Union at Oamaru on June 27. Mr C. S. Bruce: “I’m not so sure whether they can’t be prosecuted for placing a rope across the road.”

The matter was left in the hands of a sub-committee to deal with, and it was decided to introduce it at the meeting of delegates to the Motor Union.