APPEAL TO DRIVING INSTRUCTORS

Press, Volume C, Issue 29679, 24 November 1961, Page 15

APPEAL TO DRIVING INSTRUCTORS

The Heathcote County Council will make a personal appeal to driving tutors not to teach their pupils in Dyer’s Pass road. If the position does not improve immediately, the council will take further action. This was decided at the council’s monthly meeting last evening after a newspaper reptaff of an interview with one of the tutors. The tutor was said to have stated his intention to continue to use the road for teaching even if traffic officers stopped using the road for driving tests. “These trainee drivers get their cars stuck in gutters and across footpaths, or often across the middle of the road.” said the chairman (Mr R. A. Young). “The tutor who told the paper he intended to carry on with this was the very one (and the only one) who wrote offering his co-opera-tion when we first brought the matter up. We cannot allow ourselves to be defied in this way. “I have seen the Christ-

church town clerk, and he has agreed to help by asking the city traffic officers not to test in Dyer’s Pass road. Our own inspector no longer tests in this road. “As I see it. we can prosecute tutors for obstruction, or pass a by-law prohibiting instruction, or appeal once more to the tutors. I favour the latter course.”

Cr. C. D. le Comte suggested that “No Parking” and “No Turning” signs could be erected along the stretch of road in which the instruction was taking place. Immobilised cars just above the bottom corner in Dyer's Pass road were an especial danger to up traffic. Restrictions would, however, impose some inconvenience on the residents. He suggested, therefore, that a circular letter should be sent to the driving tutors, appealing to their responsibility as citizens and asking them to keep off Dyer’s Pass roed If this was not done by the next council meeting, firm action would have to be taken. This course was agreed on.