DAY-TIME PARKING.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 January 1929, Page 13

DAY-TIME PARKING.

SPECIAL STORAGE GARAGES. Tlie time is rapidly approaching when motorists will willingly pay a reasonable charge for the proper housing and care of their cars during the day (says the New Zealand Motor Trade Association’s magazine, the “Radiator”). The parking of cars in the street has become a habit, and as such may be difficult to break, as it is undoubtedly convenient, and is also regarded as cheap. If, however, the loss by theft, by damage from other car ""owners, and depreciation from weather is correctly estimated, it will be found that openair parking is • not economical. The motor trade in New Zealand has never- pressed for the- abolition of tree parking in the streets, as they know that garage accommodation is inadequate and is fully utilised in the servicing and repairing of cars. The time is now near when garages built specially for the storage and cleaning of cars will be a practical anc payable proposition. Such garages art required handy to the busy parts of £ city, and the principal drawback is oil account of the high price of land ii such centres. Necessity is overcoming this difficulty, and garages are bein' erected on comparatively small sections of land which will house a large mini-, her of cans, which can be handled expeditiously and safely either by ramps or elevoters.

There is an opening for such garages in some of our main centres, and tlierr is a fair field here in which wellplanned enterprise is fairly sure of an adequate reward. Auckland already has made a start in this way, and although the enterprising owner has to follow the patli of most pioneers, the progress in motor transport is so rapid that we feel sure his pioneering dayswill be short and his example will soon be followed by others.