PARKING OF CARS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 149, 26 May 1939, Page 9

PARKING OF CARS.

AT LEVIN SALEYARDS. Regret at the attitude of agents of two stock linns in parking their cars in a portion of the road near the Levin salcyards which is a no-parking area under a recent decision of the council was expressed by members of the Horowhenua County Council this week. It had been stated by the firms that it was necessary for the ears to be parked there. Correspondence was read from tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., and Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., in regard to the matter. Tho letter from tho former noted that the council had prepared a parking area on the railway side of Tararua Road and erected signs prohibiting parking on tlie salcyards side of the road. Messrs Abraham and Williams gave an assurance that, as far as the company was concerned, it would see that the parking regulations were carried out in their entirety.

Cr A. J. Gimblett was of the opinion that the matter required a good deal of publicity and was one that concerned all farmers.

“The council controls the road,” observed tho chairman (Cr G. A. Monk), who added that the farmers would have difficulty with their stock if the rule was not observed. The Farmers’ Union had approached the council asking for tho no-parking area with a view to making tho yarding of stock much easier. The council was getting co-operation from the farmers themselves in the matter, hut tho very people who would benefit in the long run were still baulking. Cr A. M. Colquhoun stated that when stock were being put into the pens practically the only cars there at the time belonged to the auctioneers. No auctioneer should object to walking 20 yards to his ear. As tho Farmers’ • Union had asked for co-operation he thought that the council should stand by it. Tie had approached tho Farmers’ Union on the matter, and had been instrumental in bringing the recommendation into the council. Raid Cr Gimblett. If the auctioneers had wanted to park their cars anywhere else there would have been no trouble. He estimated that there were 300 cars parked outside the yards on a busy salo day. The council had declared a no-parking area and the question was whether the council was going to enforce its rights or bring about a peaceful solution. Cr D. TC. Guy thought that the firm should he given another chance, and if it did not then obey the rules, the council should force it to do so. A motion on these lines was carried.