OVERSEAS NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 April 1936, Page 3

OVERSEAS NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.

Decline in Prance j TJje number of cars manufactured in 1 France declined from 20h.800 in 192" l.u 181.000 in 1924, and the number of imports from 222.400 to 170.000. Heavy taxation is -riven as the cause. 9 Offensive “It was an inoffensive looking bus. but after 1 had pas.-ed it it turned round and gave me an unexpected blow in the neck/’ said a witness at Highgate thing.) Police Court. A Blind Eye A driver with a glass eye who : said he had not undergone a driving test and had not declared the disability in any application for a license was fined £5 and disqualified from driving for three years by the Doncaster (Eng.) magistrates arising out of an accident in which the car he was driving collided with a lorry. Road Accident Toll At a meeting of the Insurance Institute at Liverpool (England) it was decided that the cost of road accidents in Great Britain amounted to £20,000,000 a year. Prefer the Roads The county surveyor for the Holland division of Lincolnshire •''Eicland) states that' in a recent census j it was found that even where footpaths are provided on important roads over 00 per cent, of the pedestrians preferred to walk on the road. Cotton Roads Cotton is being med in the con- j struction of road surfaces in America. ! Experiments have been going on since; 1020. The cotton treatment can be i applied to any road with a solid basis. | N.Z, Buys British i

New Zealand i.- now one of the jar- | gest hnyers of Briti-h motor ears. In j the nine months ended September f>ot*u 1 last year the value of Brit;-}' ear,- : taken by New Zealand inereased by j £3.':4/Khi. eomparod with the eorre- ! spending period of 1954. i Tyre-soling j

Assyrians make shoe.' 1:07:1 Cf| motor tyre-, ushiu the iread for ; and attaching woo dor. top? ;u wh:--". to place the foot. I The Young Idea • Perambulators in England are ikw, being built like ear?, with «3:d:ng ; roofs, streamline bodywork and bi_ . ‘•ha! son” ivies. ' ’ Railway Propaganda ; A heartening message to motorist-• i was broadcasting to London listeners • lecontly. It was to the effect that at I an engineers’ meeting a speaker s;;r- • gtsted that cars should be made incapable of exceeding a speed of l-> m l 2n !!■.[>.h. Those who wanted to infaster should be made to travel by rail. There was a further suggest: >n that in order to solve the traffic problem private owners should be allowed to use their ears un!y on alternate da vs!