NOTES BY THE WAY

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 256, 26 July 1935, Page 15

NOTES BY THE WAY

The annual meeting of the North Island Motor Union will be hold at New Plymouth on August 23.

On Tuesday, July 30. the executive of the North Island Motor Union will meet, at Palmerston North. Coincidentally. the secretaries of the. various associations will meet to. review the get-you-home service which was inaugurated b.v the A.A., Canterbury, ami which has been adopted throughout New Zealand. Since the A.A., Wellington, adopted this service eight months ago, 129 motorists have been assisted at an average cost of W8 each. Members of the A.A.. Wellington, are showing an increased interest in the advantages of the scheme.

The next meeting of the executive of the A.A.. Wellington, will be held on August 5.

Mr. J. J. Newman, vice-president of tile B. F. Goodrich Company, Akron, U.S.A., with his wife and two daughters, is visiting Now Zealand. With them is Mr. J. L. McKnight, counsel and assistant secretary to the company. It is the intention to visit Christchurch and Dunedin and sail for Australia on August 9.

Mr. A. E. Grundy, sales director, of the Goodyear Rubber Co., is making an extended trip through the South Island.

Reynolds and Company Ltd., have closed their motor department, and in the meantime the servicing of standard cars is being done at the premises of Lysons Ltd.

Mr. Harold C. Kent, formerly general manager for New Zealand of General Motors Acceptance Corporation,

ami latterly of Hamilton, Ims joined the Todd organisation to take control of the accounting department of Todd Motors Ltd., Todd Industries Ltd., ami other affiliated Todd concerns.

Mr. V. J. McKibbin, manager of South Island Motors Ltd., was elected president of the Canterbury branch of the New Zealand Motor Trade Association.

Mr. M. Viaune, from the head office of M. Michelin and Co., has been visiting Wellington and will leave Auckland to-morrow on his way home to France. Mr. S. Masdubost, New Zealand manager for Michelin, lias gone north with Mr. Viaune and will return to Wellington next week. $ #

Included in the remits to be dealt with at the annual meeting of the North Island Motor Union are several from the A.A.. Wellington. They deal with the registration of bicycles, the prohibition of leading dog.s e while riding bicycles, the advocacy of a highway programme for from three to five years, and consideration of proposals for a national road safety ea.mpaign involving the co-operation of North and South Unions, the Transport Dept, and other traffic interests on lines mentioned in “Motordom” last week.