MOTORING REGULATIONS

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 October 1928, Page 4

MOTORING REGULATIONS

AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE

(Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, October 2.

A circular lettei’ to all local bodies was received from the Minister of Public Work’s, by the Upper Hutt Borough Council, 4n regard to supplementary motor regulations, which came into force on October 1. The Minister desires to set up a committee, advisory to himself, and representative of different interested organisations, for the purpose of considering and declaring the efficiency of the different appliances and devices, such as rear reflectors, mechanical direction signals, etc., for use on motor vehicles. The proposed constitution of the committee is as follows: One representative each of the New Zealand Master Carriers’ Federation, Motor Traders’ Association, New Zealand Motor Union, Police Department, local authorities, and about three from the Public Works Department. As it was desirable that the committee of members should reside in Wellington, the Minister had decided to ask the Wellington City Council to nominate one of its officers to represent (he local authorities. PETROL PUMPS. Trouble at the Upper Hutt, in regard to the petrol pump installations in kerbsides, has been settled by the garage proprietors themselves instituting an insurance scheme, by which they undertake to indemnify the Borough Council against liability.in case of accident. The Council considers the scheme sound, and has agreed to it. The petrol companies refused to indemnify the Council, and the proprietors were in consequence threatened with the loss of the pumps.