OWNING MOTOR CAR.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 17756, 17 September 1927, Page 17

OWNING MOTOR CAR.

Salary Standard. Required. SOME VARIED OPINIONS,. ' By Cable —Press Assocmtirn l.ijpyrigM Australian mul N./1. t.’ 31HI o Aasm-ialion. (Received September-'l(>^-7.50 p.m,), LONDON, September 13I'hc dictum ol the, English County Court Judge that nobody is justified ill owning a mot ol -ear, with a .sentry income below £ISOO has aroused sliai p emit rover y. Mr Sell ridge cvnre.wd opinion tlmt a earei'ul man v ilb ,I'JIIU a year r; u safeiv invest in a motor-car.

Sir Josiali Stamp says it should be possiblo for a man with £6OO or £7OO to run a car, but below this other, claims on the income ought to come first. The Automobile Association says that thousands of its members do not. earn £SOO annually.' A. second-hand car can be purchased for £SO, and a man and his family can get ;.n astonishing amount of pleasure for 40s weekly. There are two hundred omnibus drivers in London alone who own motor-cars. They say they, have given up paying doetons’ bills, and spend money running cars.