WELLINGTON AUTOMOBILE CLUB

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12315, 9 December 1925, Page 11

WELLINGTON AUTOMOBILE CLUB

MONTHLY COMMITTEE MEETING CONTROL OF PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC. The monthly meeting of the Wellington Automobile Club was ‘held in the clubrcom yesterday {afternoon, Mr H. Filiner presiding. In reply to a letter from, the club regarding telephonic communication to the Pnchakariki Hills, the P. and T. Department wrote stating that such communication as existed was a private line, erected by the settlers, and the club's object would be best Berved by entering into an ari angoment with these. It wns decided, to approach the Eastbourne Borough Council with a view to having the apeed limit through that borough limited to 20 miles per hour. Mr F. J. W. Stnllard was appointed Levin representative of the club. It was decided to write to the Patent Slip Board asking that they devise some method of warning motorists when a boat vas being brought across the Evans Bay rood. It was slated that on a recent Saturday some twenty cars were held up for threo-auarters of an hour while a boat was being pulled across the Toad. Some method of notifying motorists at such, a position as to .enable them to take an alternative route was asked for. In reply to a letter from the club asking that the j>olicemen on point duty, control pedestrian as well as vehicular traffic, as often pedestrians passed in front of vehicles which had been signalled to proceed, thus stopping them, the by-law's committee regretted their inability to accept the added responsibility, The reply was freely commented on by members of the committee, it being decided to again make representations to the council. ... The Borough Council notified,, that in accordance with the, request of the club, it had been decided to erect « traffic mirror in Woodward stieet.