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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 244, 15 October 1931, Page 6

Parliamentary Rule. “Parliamentarians are very strict on rules. It would bo d ost improper, for instance, for one honourable member to call another honourable member a silly fool. There is nu rule though to prevent you calling a silly fool an honourable member.” Thus Air. A. T. Christensen, striking a note of humour in proposing the health of Parliament at Tuesday’s Jubilee dinner in Patea. Oblique Parking.

Whether oblique parking for cars in the Avenue could not be put into practice was a question brought before the annual meeting of tlu Wanganui Automobile Association last night. Oblique parking was the practice in the busines streets in most towns said Air. N. R. Bain. On Saturdays and Wednesdays the Avenue was lined with cars, and they were parked one behind the other so that once a car was in it could not get out again. It was a matter that would be to the good of the shopkeepers, said Air. Bain, as well as io the good of the motorists. If oblique parking were allowed then it would be much easier for them to draw away. Air. Bain suggested that the matter might be referred to the executive. The chairman, Air. D. McFarlane, thought that the question had already been referred to the city council and he foresaw difficulty with tho trams being behind the cars. If the car had a fourteen foot over-all it would be too near to the trams. He thought that the city council would rule the matter out. He undertook to bring it under the notice of the executive.