OTAGO MOTOR CLUB

Evening Star, Issue 19791, 15 February 1928, Page 14

OTAGO MOTOR CLUB

MONTHLY MEETING The monthly meeting of the Otago Motor Club was held last evening, Mr A. E. Ansell being in the chair. SPEED IN HAMPDEN. The Town Clerk of the. Hampden Borough Council wrote notifyin members that a by-law had come into force in that borough which regulated motor traffic to the speed of eighteen miles per hour on the streets and six miles per hour going round corners.—Deceived. SCHOOL NOTICES-, i Mr Ralph J. Black, tho Manioloto county engineer, wrote applying for three school notices lor the I’anfurly streets.—Request granted. Mr W. M'Grcgor, county clerk to the Waihemo Council, wrote asking, d the club was prepared to erect school notices on tho Main Highway in Dunback township.-—Request granted. NORTH OTAGO HILL GLJ.MIL ' The North Otago Motor Association g; notice that it was holding a hill climb at tho coal pit hill near Enfield on March 10. Members of the Otago Club were invited. —Received. THE PETROL JAN. ; A letter was received from tho secretary of tho South Island Union, who stated in an enclosure that tho following resolution was carried at tho quarterly meeting of delegates held at Invercargill on February 9:—“That each aftiliated association and club be asked to appoint representatives to interview the members of Parliament for their respective districts, discuss with them tho position in regard to tho allocation of the petrol tax, and endeavor to obtain from them an explanation of their attitude.” Another resolution was carried to the effect that each association and club be asked to organise public indignation meetings in their respective districts, and invite all local bodies interested as well as tho district’s members of Parliament, who would he asked to give their opinions an’ answer questions. It was urged that no effort be spared to ensure if possible an amendment to the Act to b passed next session in order to make provision for tho money to be derived from the petrol tax to be allocated in the same manner between the North and South Islands as the tyre tax and the license fees. An additional resolution read: “That associations and clubs be asked to formulaic a programme of works required in their respective districts, and forward them to the South Island Motor Union for placing before tho Main iliglntavBoanl?’—Dealt wit by executive. CAMPING PLACES.

Another letter from the secretary ol the South l.sliuul Union slated lhai arrangements had been made lor _a camping place lor motorists at \ ietoria Park, Invercargill, and that arrangements wore in band lor another camping place at Taluma Park, Dunedin. Particulars were forwarded of the camping places at i nvercargil! am! Riverton.—Received. Mr C. L. Sparrow ’(lvaiapoi) wrote suggesting that fingerposts erected direct!im motorists to Dunedin s camping place. The writer also criticised the prevailing conditions at t lie lamina Park ground, and suggested that Hut Otago Club compare it with the camping places nt other towns, ami bring about improvements.— Received.

MOTOR CLUB IN OTAGO CENTRAL. Mr G. C. Smith. Alexandra, wrote stating that he was doing his best to form a motor cycle club in Otago Central, and would like the sanction ol tho Otago Chib to make it a branch ol that club. lie anticipated that ho would have thirty members in a month's ;imc.—The request was

granted. VINCENT COUNTY SIGNS

A letter was received I'mu the lion, were fury of the Clyde Town '1 rust stai/injr that lie had been directed by the members of the trust to draw the attention of the .Motor Club to a number of misleading roadside notice boards which the Alexandra Borough Council had erected at Wpringvale, Butcher's Gully, ami Earnselengh. The main objection to them was that they unfairly misled (he motorist unaccustomed to the district by declaring the deviating road to the town of Alexandra to bo on the Alain Highway to the lakes, the obvious consequence being that many motorists were travelling an unnecessary number ot miles to no purpose. As in any ease they must pass through Clyde business people in that town would suffer very little, but it was felt to bo in the intcvefd.s of the district and of motor and tourist trafiic that the signs should be altered.—Dealt with bv executive WAIKOUAITI BOA l)S.

Mr id. Idalliday suggested that the <dub write, to the V/'aikouaili County Council with regard to certain stretches of the Main North road, and a.sk how much money it spent on them. It seemed as though those in power there were trying to make an old type of road bear heavy modern trafiic. Complete reconstruction, bp considered, would be cheaper in tlie long run than surface patchwork. The Chairman said that .Mr A. dull, of the Main Highways Board, had assured them that their money was nob being used for unemployment purposes, but—and in this he was supported by Air Idalliday---he thought they had ample proof (bat it did. Ho believed that in the North Island motorists’ revenue amounting to £70(.),00n was being used for this purpose. It was not fair, because many wealthy men bad no ears and some pool' men had. U was decided that the AVaikonnifi Connell lie written to and asked what was the bust improvement carried out on the Alain North road, and also what it spent on maintenance.

AIEAIBEBSIHB. Eleven new members were elected