EFFECT ON BUSINESS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 254, 27 October 1938, Page 14

EFFECT ON BUSINESS.

MR. H. J. BUTCHER'S TALK.

The parkin# problem as it affected the city business man was dealt with by Mr. H. J. Butcher, a member of the council of the Automobile Associa tion (Auckland) yesterday, addressing the annual meeting of the Karangahape Road Business Promotion Society. Air. Butcher, Mho has just returned from a trip abroad, said tlie problems of park ing were not confined to Auckland, biit were common to every city in the world.

"We are nearing the point when every house will have a ear," he said. "One in every six people have them now in New Zealand, and that number will be increased." The business man had to provide for these car owners. Mr. Butcher went on to tell of the ways adopted in the United States, where some stores operated a parking system by vouchers, which could be redeemed bv patrons after completion of shopping. Others were more elaborate.

He said that in the future we would find that little shopping would be done on the ground floor—that would be used as a parking area. Continuing, he referred to the conference that would be called in Auckland at some future date to go into parking problems. Personally, he favoured sending the chief traffic officer overseas to study conditions for himself. "You would have to go a long way to see more erratic parking conditions than in Auckland," he concluded.