NATIONAL SPEED LIMITS
NEW REGULATIONS LOCAL RESTRICTIONS Although four national speed limits are fixed by the new motor vehicle regulations, this docs not mean the end of a multiplicity of speed restrictions. After laying down 35 m.p.h. on the open road, 25 m.p.h. within boroughs, 15 m.p.h. across intersections, and 10 m.p.h. around sharp bends and inside safety zones, the regulations give a sweeping permission to local bodies to impose additional limits provided that signboards arc erected to indicate the area affected. The signs must bear the wording “local restriction,” and at the end of the road concerned there must be a conspicuous sign “restriction ceases.” The regulations provide that it shall be a sufficient defence for a prosecuted motorist to show that the signs had not been erected.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20110, 31 March 1928, Page 23 (Supplement)
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129NATIONAL SPEED LIMITS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20110, 31 March 1928, Page 23 (Supplement)
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