“ELECTRONIC SPEED COP” TO GO ON TOUR OF NORTH ISLAND

Wanganui Chronicle, 2 May 1949, Page 5

“ELECTRONIC SPEED COP” TO GO ON TOUR OF NORTH ISLAND

WELLINGTON, Last Night (PA).—Having given a fair warning, the Transport Department is sending out an “electronic speed cop” team in earnest next week. Drivers whose speed is detected as above the legal limits for the type of vehicle will be stopped arm told that a prosecution will follow', and later will be called before the courts. .The department docs not wish to disclose the areas in which the device will be working, except that the tour will begin from Wellington. In the past few weeks, the “electronic speed cop” has been checking speeds on hundreds of miles of highway and roads in the North Island. Drivers of heavy trucks have been proved the worst speed offenders and car drivers, by comparison, are remarkably well behaved. Of the 156 heavy trucks checked, only 36 were driven within the 30mile limit, 86 between 31 and 35 miles per hour, 29 between 36 and 40, four between 41 and 45, and one between 51 and 55 miles an hour. Each day’s results were communicated to the department’s head office and a “please explain” sent to the offenders by post.

NEW PLYMOUTH, Last Night (PA).—A Maori child, aged 17 months, received fatal injuries when he was kicked by a horse at Korohi Pa, Turangi. H e was William Te Kawau, the adopted son of Mrs. Riria Herewihi, of Korohi Pa.