AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 6 November 1925, Page 9

AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION.

SOUTH TARANAKI ORGANISATION . ANNUAL REPORT. The activities for the year of the South Taranaki Automobile Association will be reviewed at the annual meeting ,to be held on Tuesday next in the Borough Council Chambrs. The annual report discloses a healthy position. The association was resuscitated after several years, and was incorporated on November 9, 1914. The membership stands at 177, and 13 new members joined during the month of August. . A large number of matters of interest were dealt with in the report. The abolition of the toll-gates was noted, and it was recorded that the association contributed in some measure towards this object. Owing to the action of the association the union' took up the matter of parking cars without lights, and the Government has promised that an amendment will be made to the statute, giving local, bodies power to allow, in approved places, cars to park without lights. Among the various activities for the year were the series'of addresses given by members to school children on the rules of the road and their proper observance, the erection of sign posts at the. corners of roads diverging from the Main South road in Waimate West .County, at bridges in the same locality, and on the boundary of Wellington and Taranaki provinces. In connection with level crossings, it was hoped that before long the Main Highways Board would cut out two dangerous crossings at Wainuku and Tariki, and this was due largely to the representations made by the association. Two outstanding events in the association’s year were the conveying of over 250 delegates to Dawson Falls and the move made by means of a large deputation from the association and from the Egmont Park Board to have a motor road formed by prison labour from Dawson Falls round the eastern slopes of the mountain. Members were interestd to note (that concessions were secured for them at various hotels throughout the Dominion, and a list of hotels had been prepared for the use of members. . In addition members going abroad might secure the privileges accruing to the Royal Auto’Club of England, and also, at the Dunedin Exhibition they will have a- parking nlace arranged' at Tahuna Pai-k. which had been placed at the disposal of visiting motorists. Badges have been procured for members’ ears, and were now available. It will be interesting to know that advance copies of all motor legislation would lie sent to the association, so that, if necessary, representation might be made to the authorities. A scheme for mutual car insurance was being considered on lines similar to that in operation in the Wnirarapa, by which it was hoped to substantially reduce the cost of such insurance. In conclusion. the president expressed the hope that all motorists would loin, and so assist in the good work being done in the interests of the motoring public.