The Barber Asphalt Company of New York, represented in Nova Scotia by Robert Low, have secured the contract for paving the Halifax streets. The country people are asking us continually if days cannot be advertised that automobiles will not be on the roads so that they can safely use the roads and come to town. In a number of cases women from the country do the shopping, driving their teams to town with butter, eggs, etc., and exchanging them for household necessities. No woman and few men can drive a horse unused to automobiles past one of these chug-chug machines. This is a subject that is of great importance not only to the country people, but also to the people of the town, especially to the merchants.
Automobiles can serve no end here except furnishing pleasure for a few people.
The law is very strict and supersedes municipal regulations, yet is inept. On its face it looks as if the Legislature deliberately passed it in such form as to gather in some revenue by a system of licensing these machines. The law should give municipalities the power to forbid them the use of our roads at all. They should all be permanently housed or shipped out of the country. In this connection it is worth noting that the Legislature forbad them running on the roads in Point Pleasant Park in Halifax.