CONFERENCE OF MOTORISTS

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 57, 1 December 1923, Page 8

CONFERENCE OF MOTORISTS

TRAFFIC PROBLEMS DISCUSSED ROAD SIGNALS FOR DRIVERS By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, November 80. The New Zealand Motorists’ Conference opened to-day. Delegates were present from the North and South (Island associations. Mr. Hawkes (Canterbury) was elected chairman. . , Resolutions were passed urging the Government to introduce a Motor Vehicle Bill next session; that the keep-to-the-left rule for pedestrian! should be made universal throughout the Dominion, and a suitable regulation included in the Police Offencei Act; that the Education Department be asked to institute an essay conn petition on the rule of the road, with special reference to keep-to-the-left on footpaths. .. At a conference between the North and South Island Motor Unions it wa« decided to urge the Government to appoint a motor-cycle control branch of the Police Force for dealing more adequately with traffic, particularly unlighted vehicles, wandering cattle, and cars driven dangerously. Mr. Edwards moved that the system of giving road signals by drivers be made uniform throughout New Zealand. This was adopted. It was decided to approve of the signals adopted by the Automobile Association of Great Britain. Mr. Wilson moved that it be a recommendation to the Government that the width of loads of heavy vehicles he restricted to 9ft. instead of RS at present. The mover said that this width would not impose hardship on wool growers. The motion was carIt' was decided to recommend that the width of loads on passenger vehicles be not greater than six inches beyond the width of the hub cap on the wheel. . A further motion that the laden weight of vehicles should be not greater than 10 tons unless under special license was carried. It was decided to forward a recommendation to the municipal conference to the effect that all parking places should be well lighted. The mover added a recommendation that there should be three lights to a It was agreed to recommend that use of the spotlight be restricted to fall within 75 yards of the front of the car and on the left hand side of the centre of the road only. The question of a colour route scheme was deferred for consideration at the next conference. It was. resolved that, subject to the formation of a New Zealand, motorists conference and its affirmation at the next annual meetin er of the New Zealand Automobile Union the _ union changes its names to the North Island (New Zealand) Automobile Union and at each conference the secretary in the island in which the conference is held be secretary of the centerence.