MOTORING AFFAIRS.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20905, 12 July 1933, Page 6

MOTORING AFFAIRS.

COUNCIL OF ASSOCIATION. <C| j The council of the Canterbury I mobile Association met last ffWAIMg when Mr W. R. Carey, the was in the chair. .JJH Thirty-nine new members w»|J| elected, making the total for the J^ral Messrs B. Falck and T. MiUU»«||| were appointed to represent the ■nSPja ciation at the meeting convened mM the Mayor to discuss more direct ■* e *Tjl to the sea. rtJLfi The patrol committee reported ■)Bf*m the mileage for the month was Seventeen new members wene Wm rolled, and the sum of £45 6s w** *2i.j| lected in subscriptions. Eight JfTrm were assisted and 45 signs erecwL,v.J| The roads committee reported^wjHJ the Railway Department had ***"*!? 1 to the association's letter about a gT-.a auction of freight on cars Springfield and Otira. The MP**? 3 ment said that the potential increas* a in traffic from the reduction sufficient to compensate the ment for its prospective loss, and 2K*i| the request could not be granted. JJKg department also could not mate ■H*! 4 ' difference in the charge for and ordinary slaed cars. It was recagj ,$ m ended that the department be if it refuted the statement that WEf 1 -/' small cars could be carried on a v-p« ; tf waggon at one time. -*v^ It was recommended that the asri' ciation pay a man to cut and clean broom back to half a chain from gsajfelij hills road between the Main W»»& road and Beach roads at WoodenO* -<ss Mr F. W. Johnston had reported the committee on a dangerous plaC front of the Woodend Hotel atJSWJ junction of the Main North road ■*£* |$ the Tuahiwi and Rangiora rOT^\ 4 if)tf3f tween an electric light pole WW3JI light on it and a telegraph P™*J®« an open space with a fairly deep *S4S close to the road line where cars had come to grief through J££m taking the vacant section for a r 9ffi t « It was recommended that the bo brought under the notice «,Jjgs9 district highways engineer and W Rangiora County Council asking *n»,| an immediate improvement be maa*-