OTAGO MOTOR CLUB

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18350, 14 September 1921, Page 8

OTAGO MOTOR CLUB

A meeting of the executive of the Otago Motor Club was held last evening. The president (Mr A. E. Ansell) occupied the chair. \ It was decided to donate £SO towards the coat of widening the road on the south side of Lookout Point, provided that the Government paid £250, the Green Island Borough Council £IOO, the Tnieri County Council £SO, and the Dunedin City Conned £SO The South Island (New Zealand) Motor Union forwarded a lengthy list of hotels which had been appointed official hotels for the South Island. Mr P. R. Harman, secretary of the South Island (New Zealand l Motor Union, wrote stating that it had been decided that a deputation of mplorists should interview the Mayor of Christchurch with a view to getting the four main centres to take joint action to secure police control of traffic. The South Island Union wrote stating that the Royal •Automobile Club bad replied that it would welcome the application of the union, and that it. bad been decided to affiliate with the. club and forward the subscription of £5 ss. Messrs Ilnlliday. Breen, and Stevenson were appointed a. sub-committee to go into the question of securing payment of outstanding subscriptions. Mr Breen said that he thought their club should oppose the attitude taken up by the New Zealand Union and the South Island Union regarding head lights. He considered that these two bodies were acting wrongly in favouring the non-dimming of headlight# when approaching traffic corning in an opposite direction. Ho thought that headlights should be dimmed. ' The Chairman said that ho thought Mr Breen’s opinion was on quite right lines. It was a very selfish practice for motorists to keep their lights full on in such circumstances. It was decided to forward a protest to the South Island Union against the proposal that motorists should not dim their lights when meeting traffic, and that the South Island Union should also send the protest on to the New Zealand Union.