PARKING METER USAGE

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28362, 22 August 1957, Page 14

PARKING METER USAGE

Traffic Officers* Campaign City Council traffic officer! yesterday began concentrating on parking meters, with special attention to motorists who, it 11 thought, have been doing theii best to avoid paying for theii parking, and doing so when it could not be avoided. Cr. H. P. Smith, a member ol the traffic committee, said the committee had instituted a ‘‘refresher course in the proper method of using parking meters” because there was plenty of evidence that meters were being used by persons who were not paying Some motorists, he said, had been studying the movements ol traffic officers and putting in money only when absolutely necessary. Tickets left on cars yesterday were stamped “parked in expiree meter space.” That has been done to save the officers’ time in writing up the details on ticketi which are left on unattended cars. It had sometimes happened, Cr. Smith said, that while an officer was writing out a ticket he would be observed by another transgressor who could hurriedly slip money into a meter. Those who used the meters had to pay for them, he said. Thai was only fair to those who were meeting their obligations.

'Conrad’s First Command Destroyed.—The hulk of Joseph Conrad’s first command has been destroyed by fire at East Risdon. near Hobart. She is the Otago which, after her useful life >1 sea, ended her days as a coal hulk in Hobart. Conrad once described the Ship as “an Aral! steed” and it is believed he made her the setting for at least one ol his novels.—Hobart, August 2L