SKILFUL DRIVING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18585, 20 December 1934, Page 2

SKILFUL DRIVING

NEW ZEALAND MOTORISTS ABILITY PRAISED ■ . • ~ “In England we like to have nil four wheels on the grqund at once ojn your New Zealand back-country ponds you do not seem to care. ’ ’ ThaT' is the opinion of Mr Malcolm MacDonald, British Under-Secretary for Dominion, Affairs, who with his sjster, Miss Sheila MacDonald, arrived in' Queenstown recently ■ after about, 400 miles pf motoring in the South Island. . Mr MftcDonald was 'filled with admiration' for the driver of his car, and with the resource shown by other motorists he had passed on the roads. I-te had not been afraid of an accident, hpwever, as from the first he had felt cbnfi ) de I nt the sk f U 9 f ki * ty iver> “Driving in England is ridiculously easy compared with driving in the Dominion,’’ Mr MacDonald said. <lMany of your roads arc precipitous, but one never seems tp have if feeliiig of danger. When we were comtyg through the Lind is Pass we met a: huge lorry on a sharp bend in the middle of a dust storm. Each driver 'ctymly slowed down, and the cars passed with'inches .to spare and with aintypipity °n one side. In England tIU drives wo.uld havo stopped ana waited far someone t 0 com « <along '