TOURISTS' CARS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18412, 19 June 1925, Page 5

TOURISTS' CARS.

QUESTION OF DUTY. In yesterday's issue of "The Press" appeared a complaint from a wellknown Sydney resident regarding the inconvenience caused him on the occa/6ion of a recent visit to the Dominion by the- Customs authorities insisting on his paying £125 duty on his motorcar, which he intended to take back with him. as soon as ho had completed a tour of New Zealand in it, and in respect of which his offer to make out a cheque on his Sydney bank was refused. This is a question which has engaged tho attention of the South Island Motor Union for some considerable time. They recently approached the Customs Department with a view to that Department agreeing to allow visitim; motorists with' Australian Automobile Associations to be spared the inconvenience of having to find *;icb duty in tho event of their leavins the Dominion with their cars within the specified time, provided the North and South Island Motor Unions guaranteed the amounts concerned. The reply of the Department w ; as that tho Unions should between them put up a bond of £IOOO. There is no doubt that such a procedure would result in a greater number of motorists from Australia visiting tho Dominion than is tho case at present, but it is claimed that such a stipulation is hardly a fair one. Every overseas visitor to New Zealand necessarity' ibrings a certain t amount of money ■with him to see him over his Jioliday, and of this none would come the way of tho Unions who are called oil to find such a largo sum, but all of it would go int6 the pockets of those who would provide thom with accommodation and to tradespeople gen orally. Why, then, should <ho Unions be asked to accept a responsibility, which would .prove so beneficial to others, who would not be asked to take The question was probably discussed at Wellington yesterday by the Minister and Messrs Hawkes and Ansell, of the executive of the South Island Motor Union.

A contractor who is building a bridge inland from Moumahalu, has his camp near a small patch of native bush. He stated "to a Wanganui "Herald reporter that the native bird ljfe was remarkable. All night they heard the call nf tho kiwi, and in the early mornings pigeons, bell-birds, tuis, and a number of the smaller birds wore plentiful. He added that it was a striking instance of the value of shelter bush a r ? in tho locality in question most of tho countryis cleared.

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