AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17118, 13 April 1921, Page 3

AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION.

MEETING OP COUNCIL, J Tho Council of the Canterbury Automobile, Association met last night, Mr R. .W. I Lochhcad presiding over a good attendance. The' Progress League wrote respecting the i Association's representative on the Council of the. League. Mr F. W. Johnston suggested that tho Association should co-operate.: with the ILeague in the matter of good roads, especi-j ally in connexion with setting up a strong j sub-committee of the< League to take the mat- j tor in hand. He referred to the point that j the efforts of the Association on the subject of good roads required the backing of an j outside body. ' . It was decided to ask the League to meet! the Association's Road Committee to discuss i the setting x\p of a joint committee on good roads. It was decided to reply that the president of the" Association was the Association's representative on the League's Council. The Town Clerk (Mr H. R. Smith) acknowledged receipt of the Association's letter' suggesting that a representative of the City Council should inspect the traffic islands provided in Hawera, as a, guide,-to the users of the streets. ' The Town Clerk, Lyttelton, forwarded copy of letter sent to the Minister of Publo "Works regarding'the LytteltCn-Sumner road; # which included a copy of the Borough Council's resolution offering to •undertake tho completion of the road and maintaining it for two years. The Borough Council's engineer estimated the cost and maintenance at £1246 16a. - , ■ ... It was decided to write to the Minuter urging him to accept the offer and proceed with the work. ■•■ ■ _ ■, Mr R. Macartney, chairman of the Boadß. on.'tlio -viaifc -jaaicL fcy this 'committee- to the road; Referrinjf to the .'Sumner side of the road, he-enicV it was at [present in a most unsatisfaotory-.stato; storm-J .water from.Mount Pleasant was cutting out tho whole centre of the Sumner pjMrt of the road. He urged that the City Council should %e asked to subsidise the work'of putting it in order. . , Mr J. S. Hawkes, referring to the value of the road, stated ,tbat.he had occasion to ship a car at. Jjyttelton, and. Had ' left town at 3,80. p.m., and, driving over the .deviation, had it "on board an Ijour lator. : Mi Macartney said* that the Hairpin Bend should be\altered and the surface attended to. -J ..•- ' Oft MrHawkes'e motion, ,wa« decided that tho Roads Committee should confer with tho Sumner Borough Council on the subject. I The Waipara County Council wrote asking l what amount the Association was preparES to contribute towards, the cost of altering the grade at Foster's Cutting, the estimated coat of which was £1350. ' It was decided to send a sympathetic reply. It was also decided that the Roads Committee should form committees at Cheviot and Kaikou'ra for the object of collecting fund* for the work. •■'.'■ Notification was received of the first an--1 nual meeting of the South Island Motor Union, opening on the 28th inst., .and it was decided to refer the matter of entertainingl th.i delegates to the Roads and Social Committees. ' v ■'_.'■■ It was agreed to "receive" the Citizens' Association's letter asking members to place their cars at the disposal of the Association j on election day. '•.' the chairman said that the Automobile As-! sociatdon was taking no part whatever in the municipal elections;. ,if individual members liked to send their cars it was nothing to do with the Association. •The New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Association wrote thanking the Association in respect 'of action taken which had resulted in the, fining (£5 and costs), before the Magistrate's Court at Amberley, of a hotelkeeper who had declined to give accommodation to a traveller. It was decided to write to the Minister of Railways, and to the resident Railway Engineer, on the question of having two turn-outs made at the Hokitika railway bridge. Action was taken in this matter on representations from the Westland. branch of the Association,' • * The South Canterbury Automobile Association wrote respecting the necessity for signposts on certain roads,, and it was decided to reply that the Ashburton branch had the matter in hand, ■>, ■•,'■■' New members, were elected as follows: Messrs A. J. Gray, F. Brown, F. C.Andrews, Jas. McKenzie, "W. F. McArthur, W. Drake, J. Willis, D. McLean, H. McLenaghen, C. "White, Dr. P. H. Ross, and Dr. M. Ramsay. Greymouth branch: Armstrong and- Douglas, • Moonlight S&wmilling Co., and Mr J. A..C. Bayne. '