ROAD TRANSPORT BILL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 155, 3 July 1934, Page 7

ROAD TRANSPORT BILL

THIRD READING PASSED TRIBUTE TO MAJOR STANLEY ( British Official Wireless. ) Received July 2, 5.5 p.m. RUGBY, July 1. Alajor O. Stanley, who succeeds Sir Henry Betterton as Alinistoi of Labour, brought his career as Alinister of Transport, to an appropriate end when the Road Transport Bill, which he skilfully piloted through all the Parliamentary stages, passed the third reading without a division. This result was a practical tribute to him from those who subjected to severe criticism many features of u Bill on a subject which -is inherently provocative of controversy, namely the method of regulating traffic in order to reduce the high casualties that accompany modem developments of road transport. Major Stanley admitted that many provisions of the Bill, including the ■institution of a 30-miles-an-hour s- / 1 limit in the built-up areas, were frankly experimental. The problem was constantly changing, and if the measures proved in practice to be mistaken, they would sw’ftly be amended. The aim was to make tho roads safer. Be emphasised that many contributions tn that object lav outside the scope of legislation, and depended upon the mutual courtesy and consideration shown by road nsers.