MOTORISTS AND FEES

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 68, 17 September 1927, Page 19

MOTORISTS AND FEES

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fifty persons, and the weather was miserTh vT the Sma" attendance., Ihe bitumen roads are a God-send to rnotonsts. One run to Lower Hutt on a amount ? Di he °^^° ad COst me "terrific amount in depreciation and ahvavs rpmiic 30a nday- h Th, eref°r, e £°r °«™"h MvP£ yim dsomely ' andJ would e!«dly pay £100 per annum to have all streets dressed m a surface that would prevent potholes and mud. Bitumen saves me about £6 per week in repairs. The short .length of roadway . between Oriental Bay and Kilbirnie at present not bitumenised is costing me in repairs to my cars an enormous amount per annum, and I thanked Providence again recently when the council put some gravel thereon. Constable street, now in better order, lias also cut down my repair bills. It is not the cost of a car that counts, but "thecontinuous and almost daily trips to garages for repairs at 7s 6d per hour for charges that count, besides losing the use of the cars.

Bitumen has its faults, namely, nails cannot sink into the road, and my tiro bills have more than quadrupled since bitumen ■was first laid, but repairs mote than offset tire expenses. Nails penetrate into the wall of these balloon tires easily, and once a balloon tire has received a nail through the wall all the mending in the world won't make a cord balloon tire, or any. cord tire for that matter, a really good dependable tire again. ; I vote for any increase in taxation providing tie money is spent in preventing potholes, the latter being the greatest worry of my life. I frequently spend much time in clearing nails, glass, etc., off the bitumen to save others from getting tire trouble.—l am, etc.,

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