SOUTH ISLAND MOTOR UNION

Evening Star, Issue 22454, 26 September 1936, Page 11

SOUTH ISLAND MOTOR UNION

MR F. J. WILLIAMS THE NEW PRESIDENT [Per United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, September 25. Delegates from automobile associations in all parts of the South Island attended the sixteenth annualsmeeting of the South Island Motor Union today. The president (Mr D. J. Wesney, Southland) was in the chair. The Marlborough Association forwarded a remit that it be made compulsory for all motor vehicles to be fitted with safety glass in the windscreen and windows. —It was agreed to recommend to the National Safety Council that all cars coming into New Zealand, should be fitted with safety glass in the windows, or, at any rate, in the windscreen. On the recommendation of the Nelson Association the suggestion put forward by hospital boards that, in view of the number of motor accidents, _ hospital board funds should be subsidised from motor taxation was left to the executive to watch, with a request that it should take immediate steps with the North Island Motor Union “ to stop further inroads into motorists’ funds. Queenstown was fixed as the place of the next quarterly meeting. The election of officers resulted as follows ;—President, Mr F. J. Williams (Otago) ; vice-presidents—Dr S. A. Gibbs (Nelson), Messrs J. Petrie (North Otago) and J. S. Hawkes (Canterbury); Executive Committee —Messrs W. R. Carey, E. W. Freeman, H. C. Harley, P. R. Harman, R, H. Parker, B. Falck, and F. W. Johnson (all of Canterbury) ; secretary and treasurer, Mr P. Harvey; auditor, Mr A. Donaldsons