TO CUT THE PAINTER?

Evening Star, Issue 19017, 12 August 1925, Page 11

TO CUT THE PAINTER?

OTAGO MOTOR CLUB'S THREAT HUMBER PLATES AND H9RTKEBN ATTITUDE When the Otago Motor Club last met the number plate system evoked a good deal of criticism, which extended incidentally to the attitude of the North Island Motor Associations in negativing the decision of tho delegates who represented them in the recent conference to urge the Governmnt to amend the system. The Otago Club supported the. attitude of the conference, and, furthermore, urged that the English system of registration should be adopted in place of the present. “Since we last met.” stated the president (Mr A. B. Ansell) at the club’s monthly meeting last evening, “ some of the North Island associations have definitely gone back on the recommendations or their own delegates. “I am not prepared to say much more about it at present,” he added, “But there is one aspect that is worthy of note. The Minister certainly looks for the united opinion of motorists, and if ye don’t progress towards that end more rapidly and satisfactorily than we are doing at present, then the question we will have to consider is whether it would not be better in future for the South Island associations to ‘ cut the painter ’ from the New Zealand organisation and work in unison as a South Island body.”