HALF A MILLION.
MOTORISTS OF N.S.IV
Speaking at a gathering of Pressmen at the Royal Automobile Club of Australia,, Mr William McNeil, in urging the importance of 1 the motor movement in the community, remarked that there, are to-day 100,000 motor cars in New sputh Wales, which meant that 500,000 people, oi> approximately 25 per cent, of the population, were closely interested in motoring, and couild be cbtssed as motorists.
It was frequently asked, “What was the RovaL Automobile Club doing iu their interests?” To this life might be replied that the club was unceasing in its activities, and that new idoaa brought forward for the amelioration of traffic and other conditions, by the authorities, had .been suggested, by the club over periods of from one to- three years. Neither the present Superintendent of Traffic, nor his predecessor was a. motorist, and therefore, could hardly comprehend the difficulties- of those who who were involved in this> transformation of road traffic which had: developed so enormously in a. brief space of tame. The- regulations concerning traffic were therefore conceived very frequently in a spirit out of keeping with -modern do-ve’opment-s. Interstate travellers by car found themselves faced on crossing the border with -more, irksome formalities than, were necessary even when driving from Germany to France —two of the principal belligerents in the Great- War. The officials concerned with thiis intolerable state of -affairs when approached on the matter sheltered themselves behind the fact that they had to guard the interstate roads against the passa.ge'ot criminals, thereby throwing upon 500,000 people in New -South Wales the undeserved suspicion that they were potential criminals. Mr Mceil state cl that the annual, conference of the combined association of automobile organisations of the Commonwealth will be held m Sydney in September, when, perhaps, it would be possible to arrange for united action to (remove these disabili-
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 28 August 1926, Page 14
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