To the Editor of the "Nomrn-Cuawa Darcy News'
'Sin—My attention was drawn to] your' correspondent signing himself "344" and pests on the Ming Hong and IChapoo Road. Although in this case apparently it is senseless for drivers to try and prevent cars which are travelling at a faster rate from pas-Jsing, there is something to be said in the way of advice to the would-be speed merchants who are really only Janother kind of pest in my opinion.
have been driving motor vehicles {tor about twenty years on all sorts lof roads and under, I think, nearly all kinds of conditions, but what really surprises me is the wonderful abandon land total lack of consideration for lather motorists, themselves, and last! lout not least the common or garden pedestrian, which the majority of motorists display on this roadway. Every motorist is grateful for the Jadditional facilities made possible by these new roads, but every motorist should also bear very much in mind {that they are very far removed from [Srst class highways which one finds in western countries. I cannot conceive lof a more treacherous surface for the [high speeds indulged in than the loose josh surface of which this road is made, fand it is absolutely fatal for drivers to imagine that they have any chance lof avoiding smashes, in some cases Jof a very serious nature, if they persist in maintaining such absurd speeds 'a8 50 or more miles per hour, for they will find that the control they may Jexercise on a concrete or other type' lof modern road is reduced by about) 140 per cent. or more on these roads. JOnly a couple of weeks ago a poor coolie farmer type of person was killed outright and another car thrown into the field, due I consider entirely to excessive speed and the aforementioned reduced control on these roads, Jwhilst some time previous to this 8 tittle child was also killed by a ca {travelling at a high speed, on this road, which failed to respond in time prevent the collision. It is to be hoped, therefore, that motorists will bear in mind the fundamental cause {for moderate speeds of from, say, thirty to forty miles per hour at the most on these roads and try and curb {the thrill, which is denied us in China, lof faster travel on the "open road" on Jeomparatively safer roads of more modern construction, and incidentally show consideration for the. country Holk of the neighbourhood, our own land other motorists" safety.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.