DANGEROUS CORNER

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 23, 19 April 1927, Page 11

DANGEROUS CORNER

NEW SIGN FOR MOTORISTS PROPOSED GUIDE BOOK (From Our Own Con'espondent.) WANGANUI, To-day. The Wanganui Automobile Association has approved of a self-focussing, reflecting sign for the dangerous corner on the Parapara Road, and the Wanganui County Council has agreed to erect it. The new sign will be greatly appreciated by motorists travelling between Raetihi and Wanganui. The North Island Motor Union wrote to the Wanganui Automobile Association asking if it would co-operate in the production of a North Island guide book. The local association considers it would be only a waste of money to issue another book to members next year as the new book had been brought right up to date, and there would be very little alteration for some years to come. A WELCOME MOVEMENT Situated on a main road, a few miles out of town, is a building in a sad state of disrepair. This is the Stone Jug, one of Auckland’s earliest hostelries. It was considered of sufficient historical interest to warrant the road being diverted to save the building being demolished. Now there is a welcome movement whiefy might, and probably will, result in the building being reinstated, and brought to the original character of a wayside inn of English type. The city council and the ALitomobile Association are to confer on the matter, with two things in mind, one being that there should be established, alongside the Stone Jug, a motorists’ public camp of ten acres, the same to be planted and rescued from its present barren appearance. The other is that the bLiilding should be repaired, and ivy grown to cover its walls, and that it should be converted into a wayside tea room which would also provide meals for those motorists not desiring to ‘‘go the whole hog’ in the matter of motor camping. The suggested activity will be welcomed by all members of the public. MOTORIST-CANDIDATE Motorists will note that Mr. J. B. King, a member of the council of the Auckland Automobile Association, is a candidate for a position at the city council table During the coming two vears it is probable that the council will deal with a considerable amount of matter in which the motorist is \ ery directly concerned. Without commenting one way or the other on the candidature. I take this opportunity of pointing out that from the motorists standpoint a connecting link between the city council and the motoring body should prove of considerable advan- , tage. ~