One Hears
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-" We are in a hurry for the goods, so please send them by road."
That people are wondering when the Rutherglen police will take action against pedestrians who bait drivers at pedestrian crossings.
That many people stand as if about to cross the street, and then laugh at the driver who stops.
That the Western Highland people are protesting against the 10-ft. roads which the M.O.T. is planning • for them.
That a 1929 Leyland Lioness with over 1150,000 miles to its credit has lately been fitted with a modem streamlined coach body.
That in Parliament silence does not give consent.
Rumours of "disciplinary education" for pedestrians, begixning in Edinburgh.
Of a woman who alluded to a gullyemptier as one of those munificent motors. That a skid is not an "Act of Nature" according to the ruling of several courts.
Echoes of mirth at Mr. Maxton's suggestion that a Minister has been terrorized by the railways I Of a woman describing her haulier son as "a goods-lugger."
That sailors would be surprised to know that in road transport it is possible for a " lugger " to be a "cutter." 0 That the Chief Constable of Fife disapproves of policemen using typewriters—obviously, no job for the " tender " set l Of the Menai Bridge as one of many weak bridges.
That Road Fund plundering savours of Governmental blundering.
That efficiency speaks for itself, but inefficiency speaks more loudly still.