LIGHTS ON CARS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 13 June 1925, Page 8

LIGHTS ON CARS

IN BARKING PLACES (By Telegraph.—Special to The Mail.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Dissatisfaction in respect of the Lights on Vehicles Act is the subject of a letter soft! hy the Secretary of the Nelson Automobile Association to* the South Island .Motor Union. Ihe letter is as follows: "My committee has been going into Hie question c-f lights on cars in parking places at night with particular M-feicucc of course to a place where the street light illuminates, tin* parking place to such an extent as to make the lights on the ears quite unnecessary. Under the Lights on Vehicles Act there is apparently no option even II the local |>o;lv concerned may consent and may even pass a by-layv permitting cars In he in such places without lights. We believe that prosecutions have alrer.ry taken place in several places in tin* North Island and convictions obtained m places where tin- local by law apparently permitted such to he done. '1 he Act appears to us to he detective in several directions and ambiguous m other respects, and we would like to know what Voitr Union is doing in re gard to endeavouring to net an amendment." The matter has been discussed previously hv the Motor l nion and the Goveriimenl has been approached in re gard. in u and in addition Messrs .T. S. llawkes. chairman of the I'iiioii. and A. E. AiiseJl, a member of the executive will bring it up again at the conference to he held at Wellington next, week t,o go into questions, connected with identification plates and other matters of interest to motorists.