MOTORING APPLIANCES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 474, 2 October 1928, Page 9

MOTORING APPLIANCES

PROPOSED ADVISORY BODY TROUBLE OVER BULK PUMPS Press Association WELLINGTON, To-day. A circular letter to all local bodies was received from the Minister of Public Works, the ITon. K. fcs. Williams, by the Upper Hutt Borough Council in regard to the supplementary motor regulations which came into force on October 1. The Minister desires to set up a committee advisory to hims«?lf and representative of the different interested organisations for the purpose of considering and declaring the efficiency of the different appliances and devices, such as rear reflectors and mechanical direction signals, for use on motor vehicles. The proposed constitution of the committee is as follows; One representative each from the New Zealand Master Carriers’ Federation, the Mot of Traders’ Association, the New' Zealand Motor Union, the Police Department, local authorities, and about three from the Public 'Works Department. As it was desirable that committee members should reside in Wellington, the Minister had decided to ask the Wellington City Council to nominate one of its officers to represent the local authorities. PETROL-PUMP TROUBLE Trouble at Upper Hutt in regard to petrol-pump installations on the kerbside has been settled by the garage proprietors themselves instituting an insurance scheme by which they undertake to indemnify the Borough Council against liability in case of accident. The council considers the scheme sound and has agreed to it Petrol companies refused to indemnify the council, and proprietors were in consequence threatened with the loss of their pumps.