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“Otago seems to be getting more or less personal,” said Mr D. S. N. McCartney, who presided at a meeting of the Wellington centre of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association. referring to an Otago proposal that the Dominion headquarters be transferred from Christchurch. “It would be a retrograde step to allow Auckland or Dunedin to have the New Zealand council. li\ my opinion the only place for it to .change to would be Wellington.” Mr P. Coira said that Otago did not want to be the centre but wanted a change in headquarters. He himself did not , favour a change. He said that the centre should instruct its delegates to press for greater efficiency in correspondence. He moved: “That this centre has confidence in the New Zealand council, and takes no action injhe direction of changing headquarters of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association. It desires, however, to draw the attention of the council to the fact that an improvement ’in the general management would be of greater advantage to the sport.” The resolution was carried. In conjunction with this controversy, the suggestion was made that the time was ripe to suggest the consideration of the reconstruction of the council on the lines of the golf council and similar bodies—that, is, appoint the executive at a meeting of delegates.

As streamlined motor bodies offer no projections to the grasp of cyclists seeking power locomotion, the pedallers, it is said, have evolved a kind of grappling iron, with which they attach their machines to the mudguards of motor-cars to obtain a tow. A report before the meeting of the Automobile Association (Wellington) said that on two occasions recently motorists using the road between Porirua and Paremata had been troubled by cyclists having their machines towed by wire hooks under the mudguards of their cats. The secretary, Mr W. A. Sutherland, said that one motorist had been travelling between 45 and 50 miles an hour, not knowing that a boy on a bicycle was attached to his motor-car by that method. Had anything happened it would probably have been the end of the boy. As the law stood at present the motorist was liable to precaution, even though he was unaware of the cyclist’s presence, but the new regulations would remove that anomaly. The roads committee of the association viewed the practice as one of the most dangerous that had come under its notice, and it proposed to approach the Main Highways Board to get its inspector to exercise supervision.

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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21908, 8 October 1936, Page 10

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Untitled Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21908, 8 October 1936, Page 10

Untitled Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21908, 8 October 1936, Page 10