BY-LAW PROSECUTIONS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 220, 6 December 1927, Page 7

BY-LAW PROSECUTIONS

TRAFFIC DEPT. ACTIVE That by-laws governing motorists (unlike the proverbial piecrusts) are made to be observed is an opinion being forced on quite a lot of city motorists recently. Last week, at the Auckland Police Court, approximately 100 drivers of , motor vehicles were prosecuted for breaches of by-laws. For leaving their cars unattended for a period longer than allowed, 27 drivers were fined 10s each. For not having tail lights, 16 drivers were fined 10s each and another five 5s each. Five drivers were fined 10s each for not having sufficient lights on their cars. Some of the other charges against motorists include, failing to notify loss of registration plate, using an unregistered vehicle, cutting corners, parking too far from the kerb, passing stationary tram cars, passing vehicle on the wrong side, failing to obey traffic signals, and failing to produce licence when required. Obviously it pays to be careful.

GOLD i At a dinner to overseas Morris | dealers at Holborn Restaurant, London, | Mr. W. R. Morris said: —"Wall Street! • I have been worried to death by Wall ' Street. Wall Street has been trying to buy Morris Motors (1926), Ltd., for the last three years, and when I say that, I will say that I have been offered £12,000,000 for Morris Motors (1926), Ltd.—and I have refused it. Gentlemen, I think you will all agree that I could have lived fairly comfortably, and even have gone to Gold Flake on £12,000,000. But I do not think, had I accepted that offer, that I could have ever remained a Briton at heart. I think I have refused the biggest amount offered to a Briton for his own concern. I could have had money to buy lots of things with, but had I accepted that in tht first place I should have been letting down a lot of the men, the loyal men who were working with me. I should have been jeopardising their positions, because I think if I had sold them the Americans would have thought they could produce better men for the position. With that I should not agree, and I am sure that in the end I shall prove to all of you gentlemen in the room to-night that I will do everything I can for the British motor in- | dustry in giving him a square deaL”

Do not force oil between spring leaves unless springs are designed for this. Otherwise there is danger of excessive bumping of frame on axle, and when front springs are too flexible, this will have a very bad effect toward inducing front-wheel shimmy at high speed.

INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY The following article, culled from an overseas trade paper is interesting in so far as it illustrates how a prominent U.S.A. manufacturing concern trains up its employees in its own university. Goodyear Industrial University, ; t I Akron, Ohio, U.S.A.. the largest educational institution of its kind in the country, has just closed the most suc - cessful yeax in its history with 1.114 students registered. Registration is not compulsory, the employees electing to take the various courses offered to complete their interrupted high school education or to take up special studies which will aid them to advance in their work. Most of these students work in the factory, many of them being married men with families. They pay a nominal fee. Subjects taught are many and varied, including elementary arithmetic, English, economics, organisation and management, business law, calculus physics and sociology. Some take a combination of subjects and courses The university also offers special courses for high school and college graduates. Many students apply thr.r credits toward a high school diploma. Theory is combined with practice 1* the rubber manufacturing course*