MOTORISTS' COMPLAINT

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 82, 8 April 1931, Page 3

MOTORISTS' COMPLAINT

BOATS ON THE SLIPWAY

It was reported by the chairman (Mr. .13. A. Batt), at the mooting of the executive of the Wellington Automobile Club last evening, that ho had received complaints from motorists that several times'within tho past few weeks when a boat was cither being hauled up on to the Fatent Slip or was coming down from the slipway, notices warning drivers of motor vehicles that the road at that point was not open to traffic had not been displayed at Oriental Bay and Kilbirnio. There were certainly alternative routes, said Mr. Batt, but if no notice was given that the road at the slipway was blocked, great inconvenience was caused. The Evans Bay road was by no- means a pleasure road. It was one of the main traffic routes, being extensively used, apart altogether from private cars, for commercial purposes. The chairman referred to the case of a professional man who, through no warning notice being posted up at Kilbirnie that the road was closed, missed the Auckland Limited express. Mr. Batt said he thought that the absence of the notice boards was caused through the person responsible for posting them having to go from the slip to Kilbirnie, and then round the road to Oriental Bay. He suggested that warning bells, operated from tho slip, might be placed at Kilbirnie and Oriental Bay, or that some device lighting up a notice at these two points, similarly operated, could be adopted. Members were not clear who should bo approached with a view to having the position remedied. Meantime the matter was left in the hands of the club's solicitor to make inquiries.