The chairman of a Leicestershire highway authority replied somewhat pungently to the Chief Constable when that worthy stated "the much-maligned 30 m.p.h. areas are one of the best means of reducing accident figures."
"One of the chief offenders," said the chair-mar a car in which are two gentlemen in blue. They stop in a lane in a de-restricted area and when a car passes at more than ordinary speed they follow. They have to make up a start of 600 yd. to 700 yd. and they go along that road at anything up to 60 mp.h, or 70 m.p.h. Before we start squealing about the ordinary motorist, let us ask the official motorist to put his house in order A Future Premier Oxror's new M.P, Mr, Quintin Hogg, starts his Parliamentary career at 31. His father, Lord Hailsham, was 50 when he first entered the House of Commons.
But he became Attorney-General at once, and has since been Lord Chancellor, Secretary of State for War, and Leader of the House of Lords.
"A fine record," says a writer in the "Sunday Times" and adds; "We shall all watch with interest to see what the son makes of his earlier start."
Perhaps he will go the whole Hogg.
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