Speed limits set too low

I understand that one of our local bodies is exercised in mind on the question of a reasonable speed limit. The body is very wisely conferring with the Otago Motor Club on the matter, and an agreement should be easily arrived at. Every decent motorist is anxious, because their lives are endangered by the road hog. One or two local bodies have unfortunately erred through lack of experience, and it will be remembered that the magistrate at Timaru held that the bylaw specified so low a speed as to compel him to

declare it unreasonable. In the same connection I cull the following from the Auckland Herald: “The indiscriminate prohibition of motor traffic at more than 15 miles per hour on all roads under the jurisdiction of the Manukau County Council and the Mount Roskill Road Board was held to be unreasonable by Mr W.R. McKean, S.M., at the Onehunga Police Court. This, of course, does not mean that these roads can be turned into amateur race tracks.”

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