MOTORING.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18412, 19 June 1925, Page 6

MOTORING.

APPRECIATION OF DOMINION. VICTORIAN MOTORIST'S IMPRESSIONS. About- two months agu Mr AY', L. Podmore, a member of tlic Eoyal Automobile Club of Victoria, paid n vi?it to the Dominion anil called on Mr V. L'. Ilarman, Rccrctary of tho South Island Mofor Union, Christehurcli, and Mr .1. S. liawkes, secretary of the Canterbury Automobile Association, who assisted him as far as they were aide to. by supplying him with information concerning tho various places in the Dominion he desired to sue. Mr Podmore did not travel in his own car, preferring to use tho service cars, the fares charged in respect of which he considered were much lower than similar trips in Victoria would cost,' Jle was impressed witli the trip which is run between Queenstown and Pembroke over . the Crown jtango. which involves 120 miles, part of the journey being over the highest motor road iii the Dominion. The'faro charged was 20s, which is equal to 2d a mile. In Victoria the fare charged on service ears, Mr Podmoro stated, was equal to about Is a mile.

The number of ears in Christehurch was an cyo-opencr to him, being considerably greater in proportion to the population than the numbers seen in tho streets of Melbourne, this being no doubt accounted for to a considerable extent by the fact that a 30 per cent, less duty is charged on ears entering tho Dominion as compared with the duty imposed by the Commonwealth.

Mr Podmore has written to Mr Harms n in the following terms: —"I wish to express my sincere thanks for your .kindness extended to me during my Btay in Xew Zealand, also to the secretary of the Canterbury Automobile Association. My club will heartily Reciprocate." CHIEF JUSTICE AND SPEED LIMITS. {PHESS ASSOCIATION IELEGIUM.) AUCKLAND, Juno 13. "I trust tho public will not think that because tho Chief Justice upset tho Takapuna Borough Council's bylaw with regard to speed limits ho thought tho limit of twenty miles au hour was unreasonable," said Mr Justice Reed in the Supreme Court, after commenting on the excessivo •speeds maintained oi certain :oads in tho. city; "As a matter of fact, lie does imb think the limit unreasonable " his Honour added. . "I know because I talked it over with him. Ho was bound to hold that the by-law was unreasonable;, simply because the local authority itself thought so."