A.A.A. NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 237, 7 October 1930, Page 16

A.A.A. NEWS.

REPORTS ON ROADS. SERVICE TO MEMBERS. ITINERARIES FOR SUMMER TOURS. Several roads have suffered owing, to the recent heavy rain, especially roads having clay surfaces, and it will be some time before these, more especially the stretches in North Auckland, will be passable for motor traffic, even with the help of chains, says a report from the Auckland Automobile Association. Members are still advised, if travelling north, to rail their cars from Helensville or Kaipara Flats to Maungaturoto. Satisfactory progress is being made with the concreting of the Howick-Pan-niure road and when it is completed, motorists will then have an almost complete concrete road, which Mill bring them within easy distance of many fine beaches in the Howick district. The Birkenhead-Albany main route will be open shortly for traffic. The concreting grouting has been completed, but has etill to harden before traffic will be permitted to use this route. Motorists are still advised to travel via Devonport and follow the Brown's Bay signs to Albany. Signposting Patrol. The signposting patrol has returned this week from the Gisborne district and leaves shortly to carry out repairs and the renewal of signposts between Hamilton and Te Kuiti. New signs will also be erected from Te Kuiti to Marakopa and Kinohaku. The service officer recently inspected and repaired several signs in and around the city, and he inspected several roads for information for members. The postlicense driving tuition scheme is in good demand and quite a number of members are waiting their turn for lessons. Main roads leading out of the city have been patrolled by the city patrol and members on the road have benefited by their assisance and advice in connection with routes. The touring manager, who has been away on an extensive tour of the South Island, has returned and members who intend visiting the South will benefit greatly if they seek first-hand information from the touring department. This coming season has every indication of being a. busy one. Many inquiries and itineraries have been attended to, and, every member of the association has now received an itinerary application form, together with a year book, of which about 15,000 have been dispatched. Members are requested, when filling in their itinerary applications, to state clearly the towns they desire to visit and other particulars set out on the form. Whether camping or staying at hotels, everv member on tour should avail themselves of the hotel and camping ground booklet, which will be supplied free on application. A special feature of this booklet is the embodiment of the halfholiday observed in the towns in the North'lsland. Plugs are classified according to how much = heat and how much oil they will stand. A plug capable-of- working underverv hot conditions will stand extremely little oil, and vice versa; this is why a racing engine so often warmed-up on a tourins plu°r, which is replaced witn a hot-stuff one just before the race starts.