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In Lahti, Finland, a petrol-filling station has been granted a lease of 10,000. years! It is proposed to prohibit, for threo years, the importation of any motor-car into Jamaica. A young motorist applying for membership of the British Automobile Association, added—" lam anxiously awaiting my badge. I have had to wait eighteen years for it. lam 18 now." " I do not know that wo have a worso road in the district than Greon Lane is at present," said Mr. W. G. Mulholland, ,at a meeting of the One Tree Hill Borough Council during the week. Reading schemes in general will bo considered at the next meeting of the Borough Council. Recently an English constable who was interrogating a motorist about his parking time make rather a neat point. The officor had no record of the arrival of the car, but, said he, " It's been' raining since 11 o'clock, and it's dry under your car." This exhibition of the Sherlock Holmes method left the motorist without much to say. Vigorous measures are to b# token in British Columbia to abolish all existing advertising signs along highways, and those who insist on hiding scenic beauties of the road with new signs are to bo prosecuted. Every kind of sign will be stripped from the highways, even including those of the forestry service. Only necessary government signs will bo allowed. The Netherlands Association for Fast Motor Roads is supporting a scheme' to build roads devoted exclusively to autotraffic. The plan calls for the construction of one road from Amsterdam toßotterand on the southern border leading into Belgium. Another speed road would be from the Hague through Utrecht .to the eastern border leading into Germany, At the recent annual meeting in Perth, Western Australia, of the Commonwealth Society of Automobile Association, a resolution was adopted to the effect that, "in view of tho alarming increases in the illegal use of motor vehicles and the consequent risk to the public safety, the various State Governments bo •asked;, to impose heavier penalties,-. especially for second or subsequent offences." Hot air sprayed out in front of a motorcar by an attachment on the exhaust has been found effective in clearing * away .London's time-honoured fog. The rising current of heated air created by the device literally lifts the fog about 10ft before tho front wheels and does it quickly enough to permit a forward speed of about 15 miles an hour in the densest fog. The fog-lifter can be attached to any car's exhaust and is "much simpler than the average windshield wiper. A.41.A. MAPS.. \ INFRINGEMENT OF COPRIGHT The Auckland Automobile Association for some years past has spent a great deal of money and time in compiling touring information and publishing road guides and maps. These publications ai'e now recognised as being outstanding, the peculiar nature of their compilation being specially adapted for their nse by strangers to the roads. Last December officers of the A.A. A. detected what was alleged as an infringement of the Association's copyright in a map of the North Island published by Messrs. Palmer and Mahood, a Southern firm, and issued to the Wellington Automobile Club.' Various negotiations have been going forward but as no settlement was effected the A.A.A. applied to tho Supreme Court for an injunction to restrain Palmer and Mahood from proceeding with the issue of their maps. The case was to have been heard last week in Wellington, before Mr. Justice Reed, but the day. prior to the trial the defendants filed a confession of judgment. • This judgment gives the A.A.A. the authority,; to demand the withdrawal of all maps issued, including those in the possession of members of tho Wellington Club, but naturally the A.A.A. does not intend to embarass a kindred association, and will only call on the publications not yet issued to the club. All motor associations in tho North Island, with the exception of the Wellington Club, draw on Auckland for their supplies of maps, and in order that the Wellington Club shall not be inconvenienced the A.A.A. has offered to supply its maps in place of those which will be recalled as infringing documents. ■. TOTJRINQ INFORMATION. The touring manager of the A.A.A. returned yesterday after a long tour of the Hawke's Bay, Wairarapa, Manawatu, •Wanganui, Taranaki, Wellington and National Park districts. A huge volume of touring information has been gathered, and this will be utilised in revising the Association's road guides and road maps, of which a new edition will be published before next summer. Signposting has been carried out by the signs patrol on the newly-opened deviations on tbe Tau-' maranui—Bulls highway, and details have been gathered for the signposting of the Te Kuiti, Kinohaku, Marakopa and Waitomo roads.