LIGHTING-UP TIMES

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 120, 16 November 1929, Page 28

LIGHTING-UP TIMES

J; Sunday ............. 7.51 p.m. J': Monday 7.52 p.m. fjf Taesday ......... 7,53 p.m. h'jj "Wednesday .... 7.55 p.m. P I Thursday i. 7.56 p.m,, |i. Friday 7.57 p.m. \V Saturday ........* 7.58 p.m. I -Anew, speed.record for the journey ; fiStween and Sydney was |sta|)l { ished this week. Australia is a jibunttyu of distances, with -ivide open »rA#KM-^ traversed,, and little in |M Jna&r;e.:of settlement, and populaB 1?.? -■ %to<ighout "most of its vast in-HQpr-'Klt' is. natural, tlierefore, that a ■(iertaui' amount of interest should be laTfen-.ln:. these road speed performances, Wojgkv-maihly; it is purely sporting. $&P Zealand,'however, is in quite a ai%rent category. One Hears from jpafe tji.ii.iime of a proposal to attack W'sP tan£recor(i> tho favourite being |h.e -.Auckland-Wellington run,- or vice "versa. No condemnation of any actual attempt could possibly be too severe, jus a test of comparative value or per- « rI«S>J«B.Jn the car itself little signiWatffier can possibly attach to the reWt nowadays, in addition to which *ngre is jjot merely the threat to the safety of the public, but the fact that the. Motor^ Regulations and.bylaws of tie J)ominio,n are necessarily flouted at every inch oZ the journey. There is a proper place for the speed testing of cars, and that is the track, or, better still, such competitions as the Tourist JTrophy or some of the Continental and other road events, where the car can ■be pitted against the world's best—and the driver also —and where only those who take part or attend as spectators (paying for the privilege) are liable to! slaughter. These races have a valuethey not only show what a car can do, but they, teach the maker how it can be improved. There isn't a car on the marJet that.could not go to Auckland much laster ttian anyone- dare drive it. It is little more than a year or so ago that a number of the leading car manufacturers); of America were reported -to have put their signatures to an agreement not to advertise their products on the score of speed. f^rbl? "V de| erence to official'opi- n*pn that such advertisemsnt was not in She interests of public safety It is |. recognised incentive of speeding '