The Road Hog.

Progress, Volume IV, Issue 7, 1 May 1909, Page 240

The Road Hog.

We take the following letter from a recent issue of the Wairarapa Daily News, as showing that the country is beginning te develop a nuisance : — Sir, — Is it not time that something were done to check the "motor hog" in his wild career? At present he takes command of the whole road, and treats the unfortunate class which is obliged to stick to horses, cither from choice or necessity, with the utmost contempt. One day last week, when driving into Carterton, a person of this description came tearing along the road near Black Bridge (where there is a soft part just broad enough for one trap) on the wrong side of the road, and only turned off ■when within a yard of my horse's nose, the animal, an unusually quiet one, all but put me in the ditch. The same thing occurred to my daughters and a lady friend yesterday, when driving between Carterton and Masterton. The "motor hog" does not care a rap; his precious tyres are of more importance to him than the lives and limbs of other people, to say nothing of their property. — I am, etc., A Bit op the Road.