GAR AGE GOSSIP

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 302, 13 March 1928, Page 8

GAR AGE GOSSIP

It is the intention of the Canterbury Automobile Association to send out to all its members copies of the new motor regulations.

Twice as many motor-vehicles engaged in the five classes of motor transport—omnibus, passenger, freight, private and local carrying—are in use in the North Island as in the South Island, according to the latest figures. The greatest deviations from the two-to-one proportion .occurs in the regular freight services and in the private services. In the North Island there are 852 freight vehicles, and in the South 298. As to private services, the difference is comparatively slight. The type of firms principally doing their own cartage are dairy companies employing motor-vehicles for the collection of cream and milk, and oil companies using their vehicles for the distribution of bulk supplies of fuel oils. One absurdity in the newly gazetted

motor regulations is the provision that every red reflecting light at the rear of motor vehicles should be not less than two square inches in area. It is patent that an error has been made :in this matter, as it would be difficult to. find one car in New Zealand which complies with the regulations. No douhi: those who framed the regulations have confused reflectors on cycles with those on motor vehicles. * * • C. J. B. Norwood, Esq., managing director of Dominion Motors, Ltd., is at present in Auckland, before leaviiig on a tour of the world. * * # Aucklanders will have an opportunity of seeing: Mr. Mill’s “Moth” airplane at the gymkhana at Mangere Speedway on Saturday. * * * I The Birtish Imperial Oil Co. (N.Z.), Ltd., is now known as the Shell Company of New Zealand, Ltd.