MOTORISTS CONFER
SOUTH ISLAND UNION FITTING OF SAFETY GLASS Delegates from automobile associations in all parts of the .South Island attended the sixteenth annual meeting of the South Island Motor Union at Christchurch. The president, Mr. D. J. \Vesney, Southland, was in the chair. Marlborough forwarded a remit that it be made compulsory for all motorvehicles to be fitted with safety-glass in the windscreen and windows. It was agreed to recommend to the National Safety Council that all cars coming into New Zealand should .be fitted with safety-glass in the windows, or at any rate in the windscreen. On the recommendation of Nelson, a suggestion put forward by the hospital itoards that in view of the number of aotor accidents hospital board funds should be subsidised from motor taxation was left to the executive to'watch, with a request that it should take immediate steps with the North Island Motor Union "to stop further inroads into motorists' funds."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19133, 30 September 1936, Page 14
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