RELIABILITY OF CARS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20820, 12 March 1931, Page 12

RELIABILITY OF CARS.

TRIALS IN WINTER MONTHS. AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION. A decision to hold reliability trials during the winter months was made by the Auckland Automobile Association Council at its meeting last evening. Mr. IT. Butcher said such, trials were held in nearly every country in tho world. They were not run for speed but for skilful, economical and careful driving. One of the points in the judging was the benzine mileage a gallon. That in itself would rule out the possibility of the trial being a speed test. The trials would stimulate public interest in the association during the winter months.

The arrangement of the first trial was loft in the hands of tho competition committee.

The -Wanganui Automobile Association's suggestion that motorists should offer to tho Government to assent to the diversion of half tho revenue from motor registration fees and the petrol tax to the general earthquake relief fund was not approved. Tho finance committee's report, which was adopted, pointed out that eariitquake relief should be' a charge on the general revenue and that the , Main Highways f Board was already short of funds to carry out its programme of works in the North.

The action of the association in granting the use of one of its patrols in the transport of supplies and food and in Red Cross work, and in making a donation of £IOO to the funds of the Hawke's Bay association, was gratefully acknowledged. New members during .the past four weeks totalled 224.