NIGHT NOISES

Wairarapa Daily Times, 18 September 1934, Page 5

NIGHT NOISES

BRITAIN’S BAN. MINISTER’S APPEAL. RUGBY, Monday. Following the success of the zone of silence introduced as an experiment in the London area on 27tli August, the use of horns by motor vehicles between 11.30 p.m. and 7 p.m. will from to-night be prohibited on all roads throughout the United Kingdom in built-up areas that is, roads with street lamps not more than 200 yards apart. All big towns and suburbs and many thousands of miles of roads will thus become a vast silence area nightly. The Minister of Transport, Major Leslie Hore-Belisha, issued a personal appeal yesterday thanking motorists in London for co-operating and asking for similar co-operation from motorists thoughout the whole country. “It is not by compulsion of the law that I desire the silence zone to become effective, but by the sportsmanship and ready goodwill of the motorist,” he said. The silence, he added, was primarily instituted for the benefit of the tired' and sick, but would also cause drivers to use added caution. He had received countless letters of gratitude from hospitals, hotels, and private citizens, and stated that motorists could embark on a new situation with i the knowledge that they were public benefactors.—(British Wireless).