MOTORING MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 81, 3 October 1923, Page 9

MOTORING MATTERS

NEW ZEALAND UNION.

Correspondence from the Main Highways Board was received at the last meeting of the executive of the' New Zealand Automobile Union, acknowledging the ■ union's suggestion that main roads be numbered as in England. It was resolved to reaffirm the principle of marking main roads- by numbers, and to urge uniformity throughout New Zealand. The South Island Motor Union intimated that it had instituted the colour scheme and that the executive could not see its way clear to reconsider the matter.

It was resolved to recommend to the Minister of Internal Affairs that a clause be inserted in the Motor Vehicles Bill making it compulsory that a spotlight should not shine more than 50 feet on the left front. Mr. L. A. Edwards stated that this was enforced in many States of America.

The Minister of Eailways wrote that he was going into the matter of improved level crossings, and the removal of obstacles that blocked the view for traffic.

Mr. Edwards stated that he was arranging for a demonstration to be given of a new dipping headlight device, and that he also proposed to exhibit a traffic signal device. Mr. I. V. Wilson (Wairarapa Automobile Association) moved :—"That the union request the Wanganui Association not to use the letters W.A.A., as these would be the same as for the Wairarapa Association."

It was decided to suggest to the New Wanganui Association that it should take the name of "The Wanganui Motorists' Association."