MOTORING GRIEVANCE

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 37, 7 November 1933, Page 9

MOTORING GRIEVANCE

No Camp in Wellington Decision to arrange a deputation to wait on the Mayor, Mr. T. C. A. Hislop, to discuss the establishment of a motor camp for the city was made at a meeting yesterday of the executive of tbe Wellington Automobile Club. The City Council was criticised by members for what was called its inability to assume the right frame of mind with regard to the improvement in motorists’ facilities. The roads committee of the club reported that the town clerk bad advised that the council had decided to set aside portion of the Lyall Bay recreation ground adjacent to Resolution Street as a site for a camp. It was evident from the town clerk’s letter, it was stated, that the council expected the club to meet the cost of equipping the camp, estimated at £568. Members expressed the view that it was unreasonable to expect payment to be made by the club, which comprised about 90 per cent. of city motorists, who would probably uol require the camp. The service would be definitely a city asset, and was a .acility possessed by almost every oilier town ami village throughout the world. Further than this, the proposed, site did not meet with general approval. He had frequently been asked by visiting motorists where Wellington's motor camp was situated, remarked tbe chairman. Mr. E. A. Batt, and he had been forced to the reply that the nearest camp was at Petone. There was no excuse for the council’s attitude: it should he ready and willirg in the city’s general 'nterests to es'ablisb ■i suitable camp Pr. J 11. Graham Robertson; The council is not at all motor-minded. Mr. Batt: It never bas been. Some of tbe councillors are anti-motorists.