IN INTRODUCTION

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 6, 29 March 1927, Page 10

IN INTRODUCTION

This being the first appearance of the weekly motoring notes which will as time goes by fill many columns of THE SUN, I feel impelled to write a short introduction, and an outline of the objects that will be aimed at. The motoring correspondent has a heap of things' to write about, the misfortune being that so many of them, such as taxation and road regulation, are so controversial that even the combined motorists cannot agree on them. The attitude which will be taken up by the writer will be akin to that of the interested spectator who afterwards chronicles his impressions for the benefit or otherwise of suffering motordom. Readers will therefore be beset by someone giving them nearly as little opportunity as the wireless broadcaster, but there will be this difference,, that your opinions, suggestions or complaints, provided they are authentic and justifiable will be gladly accepted and made use of as occasion arises. If you think bad can be bettered, or good improved, let me know about it. Without proving wearisome, I hope as time goes by to indicate progress in motoring, to assist the motorist directly and indirectly with informative matter pertaining to motoring and motor-cars in general, to place before readers the comprehensively summarised position on controversial subjects, and to assist in solving the present difficulties of taxation, traffic control, reduction of accidents, road improvement, and all their various branches. The motoring position is by no means straightforward This applies especially in the matter of collection and expenditure of motor taxation. Further taxation has been suggested, while the expenditure of the present collection is far from being free from criticism. Both the methods of collection and expenditure will yet be subject to a great deal of revision. Equally as important, for it has in its attendant train the matters of injury and death, is the question of traffic control, and especially in Auckland with an unenviable percentage of the Dominion’s total fatalities must this prove a subject for remedial measures. Approaching two years ago ' the Government set out to prepare new traffic regulations. Tt is proving a long, and, so far, un-ending journey. Not, that they are going to deal effectively with any great difficulty—the indications are that they will fail to do anything definite with reference to the present greater evils.