HIGH - SPEED NEWSPAPER MOTORS. .
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The Sydney (N.S.W.) Municipal. Council has been in.conference.with the Inspector-General of Pdlice about the drivers of motorvehicles carrying parcels of newspapers, who are in the habit of driving-through the city streets ata highrate of -speed and' throwing bundles of newspapers across the footpath into or near the entrances of shops. The Inspector-General states that instructions have now been issued to. the C32 police in the. matter, and any cases coming under•notice will bodealt with. lile:ago mentions thet4during the past two years 12 prosecutions have taken place in this connection, and the publishers of two evening papers state that their drivers are instructed to stop and deliver the parcels, and infringement would mean instant dismissal.
The same sort of thing happens in this country, and particularly in Lon don, whore the distribution of newspapers covers a large area. The need for the expeditious delivery of newspapers is of paramount importance, but due consideration should be given to the publie's right to the footway. Instead of throwing newspaperstinto thesopen door of a shop, anangements should be made for the shopkeeper to take the papers from the van.