Obstruction Considerations—con.
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expressed in the words: " Does the road belong to you? " It is not appreciated that in all fairness a retort by the same question might fittingly be addressed th him who utters it. These sleepy relics of another age do not know the meaning of `.` waste of the road." They willlave-to be taught, and possibly the investigations of the Expert Committee of the Local Government Board, which committee is now sitting to consider all matters connected with the construction and use of traction engines and heavy motorcars, may result in some recommendation by which this archaic but none-the-less prevalent form of obstruction will be checked, and a means created to bring the obstructionists more easily to justice before a. court of summary jurisdiction. • There is,however, at the other end of the scale, the allegation that drivers of heavy motors unduly obstruct 20 m.p.h. traffic; we opened this article with a reference thereto. We noticed a case, a. fortnight ago., in. which the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Carnarvon caused the driver of a steam tractor to be summoned, with the result that the man was ,fined 10s. This county dignitary complained that he was delayed for about one-third of a mile, in his Motorcar, by a. tractor which was travel ling at. 12. ni.p.h. He assessed the delay at 10 minutes, and much fuss was made both by him and by the Befiell.61 'county magistrates before whom the case was heard.-Seeing that the motorcar was entitled by law-to-travel one-third of a mile in one minute, aiicl'..that, according to the evidence, the tractor took -1 minute and 40 seconds, it does seem hard that, in the absence of proved deliberate intent and wilfulness an the: part of the tractor driver, this man should have been called upon to pay at the rate of 3d.. per second for the actual time that was lost. Again.W-e:say, and above all at times like the present, let be give and take, and not irasei bility—on