DRIVING TUITION FOR PUPILS

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29245, 1 July 1960, Page 7

DRIVING TUITION FOR PUPILS

Scheme Proposed By A.A. (Southland) (New Zealand Press Association I INVERCARGILL, June 30. Secondary school pupils in Invercargill may soon learn to drive under the expert tuition of officers of the Automobile Association (Southland). The association is keen to operate the scheme but its plans hinge on winning ministerial consent for remission of the customs duty and sales tax from the car that will have to be purchased. “As this scheme is educational, we should be free of these taxes but so far we have not been able to ■ obtain ministerial approval,” the president (Mr V. T. Russell) said today. If that approval was given, the scheme would be introduced immediately,* he said. No other automobile association in New Zealand has so far entered the field although the Transport Department has been conducting a highly successful driving course for young people in Palmerston North. The Southland association has

approached all Invercargill secondary schools and been promised full eo-operation. The association’s main reason for introducing the scheme is because if realises the value of expert instruction. “Parents or friends should not teach children to drive when they themselves might have bad driving faults,” Mr Russell said. “An instructor with faults is likely to pass them on to his pupil That is why we feel that the job should be done by experts.”