Our External Relations.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 April 1943, Page 2

Our External Relations.

Dealing with his mission in Washington, the New Zealand Minister to the United States (Mr Nash) said in an address in Wellington yesterday that it was his job to see that New Zealand’s position in the British Commonwealth was made clear. “Our relations with Britain remain as close as ever,” said Mr Nash, “but we may be one day as close to the United States as we are to what we call the Old Country. By setting out our relations with Britain I think I made our position much better understood in America. At one meeting I told them that we would not take any orders from Great Britain, but Britain had only to ask us and everything we had was theirs,” Mr Nash added amidst applause. The Right Hand Rule. The Commissioner of Transport, Mr G. L. Laurenson, yesterday announced that, on the instructions of the Minister of Transport, Mr O'Brien, he had taken legal advice on the effect of the recent decision of the Full Court concerning what is generally known as the right-hand rule. “In short,” the Commissioner said, “I am advised that a motorist who is approaching or crossing an intersection must give way to the driver or rider of any other vehicle approaching on his right at all times. It makes no difference to this rule that either vehicle is changing direction. “It should, however, be emphasised that, even where the foregoing obligation may not apply, the overruling obligation to exercise care applies at all times and particularly when the driver intends to turn so as to cross the path of an approaching vehicle. The foregoing explanation also applies to bicycle-riders, but not in the cases of trams and horse-drawn vehicles.