MOTOR HOGS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 15 September 1936, Page 4

MOTOR HOGS.

Every week that passes • brings fresh evidence to prove the need for an unremitting campaign against the motorist who will not observe the law when in charge of a car and a concentrated move against drunken motorists. Every day the press of New Zealand contains reports of motor fatalities, serious accidents, ■ or the wild driving of drunken motorists. Is this state of things to be accepted, as by some people. it seems to be, as a regular and inevitable feature of contemporary life ? Motorists have been appealed to for years to. drive carefully and not to mix beer and benzine, but all to no avail, as far as a big section of them is concerned. If admonition before the event cannot avail, there must be relentless infliction of heavy penalties. The foolish heresy that punishment is no deterrent should surely not be allowed to invade this sphere. The Minister of the Crown who has charge of the motor legislation has repeatedly stated in public that he is going to stop the slaughter on the roads, but he will require to make more stringent regulations than those he has brought into force before he will succeed, and he must give his attention to something less silly than the making of cyclists register their machines.