MOTORING AND ROADS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 288, 5 December 1925, Page 14

MOTORING AND ROADS.

MEETING AT ROTORUA. ■ / (From Our Own Correspondent.) . ROTORUA, Friday. A meeting of Rotorua motorists was held last night under the auspices of the Auckland Automobile Association, when Mr. R. tE; Champtaloup (service officer) attended to hear the views of local motor enthusiasts as to improvement of motoring throughout the district. • " . The Mayor (Mr. C. H. Clinkard) presided. Mr. Champtaloup said that the association was fully, alive to the fact that : t was a necessity for the roads around Rotorua to be in excellent- condition, aa at present even a very small proportion of Auckland motorists visited Rotorua on account of the fact that they did not know whether they would get" over <he Hill Road or not. He (the -weaker) was practically assured that the road would be an "all weather road" by next winter, and in two' years' time it would be. metalled throughout. (Applause.) . The. amount of tyre tax and duty paid to the Government in 1024 was £010.000, and the amount of license *pps paid for the first quarter of 1925 was €293.000. Therefore* motorists were "Tit'flry <■<■> PTieefc foorl roads, and the amount derived from license ■ fees would '■tpadilv jppTea.se. aR there were more cars "oino- on the evety dny At present fhprp wer<» 10-T 000 motor vehicles in New which number 30,00 ft were in f he Auckland province. The association out to lonic after t*>e interests of its members in every possible way. and waa inpointine agents in every town «ut the country where members could sret idvine. They were arransrine with hotels <»nd boardinnr houses throughout the di l *- +rict fir members to be received /at a "educed tariff and in almost every town *he local authorities were establishing "ampin<r The assoeiatinp. was •Oive to the necessity for direction signs: Tti four months of this year over 700 o* +l >pse -si<ms had been erected, and tlii<> number was bein? increased daily. A3 -p"3rd« the adjustment of headlights, tpsts have proved that the best lirrht was -Mie that did not exceed 3ft 6in in beieht on a 75ft stretch, and the association was "iirteavoiirinp , to secure ft uniform set of Hv-la-trs throughout New Zealand. Mr. Champtaloup announced that for the coming Christinas holidays the a&WJ'■iation proposed to make a, camp on the Afamaku Hill, so that in the event of bad weather setting in any car that pot "stuck" -would be able tc get all the necessary assistance to get on the road The Mayor moved a hearty vote of +hanks to Mr. Champtaloup for his Tddre.=s. -wh'ch wa3 carried unanimously. W. T. Pakes was elected apent in Tlrvtorvia for the A.A.A. The advisory committee for Rotorua was elected a*e Mlovrs: The Mayor. Messrs. TT. B. Ford v . Nesbit. la Trobe Hill, and ,R. \ good response was made + -o the appeal for members.