ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11128, 12 February 1930, Page 7

ANNUAL CONFERENCE

N.Z. MUNICIPAL ASSOCIATION MOTOR TRADES’ SUGGESTIONS Invercargill is the centre chosen for the 1930 conference of delegates to the Municipal Association of New Zealand and the gathering opens .on March -5. \ arums particulars, including the order paper, were received at the Borough Council meeting last evening. The only Gisborne remit on the order paper is the following:— “Itinerant traders.—That the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, section .154, clause 3-5. be amended by deleting the words ‘Five pounds’ at the end of the clause and substituting in lieu thereof the words ‘Twenty-five pounds’. In the same connection, Dannevirke asks that the iee be substantially increased.

A similar remit was carried at- the 1929 conference.

It was intimated by the Town Clerk that two further Gisborne remits would be included in the supplementary order paper. The council was also asked to consider and make any suggestions thereon. the following resolutions, passed by the motor trade conference, and forwarded for consideration at the municipal conference. ( /l) That this conference, representing the motor trade of the Dominion. reaffirms the principle that municipal by-laws and other reasonable motor traffic control, haring, as their object, public safety and suitable control, receive full support-. c./O’) That the Municipal Association of New Zealand be urged to take immediate steps for providing a. degree of uniformity in by-law's relating to motor traffic, parking in streets” notice signs etc-., the object being to eliminate the confusion, embarrassment. and penalties of visiting motorists. arising from the multiplicity and varation in the by-laws in different districts. “(3) That the combined motor trade pledges itself to assist in every possible way the introduction of reasonable by-laws should this recommendation be favorably considered b-- the Municipal Association of New Zealand.”

The matters torched on above we-e r.ot discussed last evening. file ALiyor (Mr. D. AY. Coleman) and _ the Town Clerk (Mr. R. D. B. Ro siliconl were appointed to represent Gisborne at the conference.