MOTORISTS’ AFFAIRS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 August 1941, Page 3

MOTORISTS’ AFFAIRS

AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION MEETING. CONDITION OF GREYTOWN ROAD. (“Times-Age” Special.) At the monthly meeting of the executive committee of the Wairarapa Automobile Association, held in Greytown, the president, Mr H. Lawson, presided. Seventeen new members were elected. The secretary was instructed to procure about 200 torches and forward them to the Home Guard for use in night manoeuvres. The Eketahuna County Council wrote asking that signs denoting the presence of school buses be erected on the Mangaone highway. —It was resolved to accede to the request. The Greytown Borough Council advised that owing to abandoning the gas works, it was necessary to provide the camping ground in Memorial Park with electric cookers, etc. The cost was estimated to be in the vicinity of £122.

Before making any donation it was resolved that the council be asked to submit full details of the proposed scheme.

The Public Works Department wrote in answer to the association’s request that the dangerously slippery surface of a section of road through Greytown be remedied, stating that though at least five accidents had taken place the fault lay with speeding motorists in a restricted area. The Inspector had been paying attention to traffic on that particular part of the road, and warning for speeding had been, given to several. To properly remedy the defective road surface would entail ripping up the whole road from the south end of Greytown to the Waiohine bridge, and a work of such magnitude could not be undertaken during this financial year. Messrs H. Lawson and N. C. C. Shepherd were appointed delegates to attend the annual conference of the North Island Motor Union at Napier. Mr R. W. Roydhouse was re-nomin-ated for the Union executive.

Mr A.. S. Burgess, of the Wanganui Association and a member of the executive of the North Island Union, had passed away. He had been a very useful and active member and his loss to motoring would be felt. The president asked members to stand as a mark of respect.