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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

AN AUSTRALIAN MODEL CITY,

(By W. H. Porterfield for The Hongkong Telegraph).

advantages and to allow one time and opportunity to most his neigh bours occasionally..

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1926.

SKID TO AMUSE PASSENGERS.

DRIVERS WITH PECULIAR SENSE OF HUMOUR.

of paradise for motorists. is a land without frost, snow or extreme cold with a mountain All Australians live upon the range about 3,000 feet high within soil, that is there are practically an hour's driving of the city, over- no vast cliff dwellings called looking the vast plain surround- apartment hotels. Nearly every ing Adelaido and very accessible.. cottage has its own garden, but From the heights of Mount | naturally in great cities like Mel-Lofty range and at a hundred (By Capt. E. de Normanville in the bourne and Sydney, these vantage points along the way, one

Daily Chronicla) "gardana" are mightily restricted may look over the entire region at tinies.

fout to sea 20 miles beyond almost It is peculiar how some motor-

In Adelaide, however, the gar-to Kangaroo Island, which lies car drivers misconstrue their duty den is a real thing of beauty and across the mouth of the great bay towards passengers and also other utility especially when its peach, jupon which is situated Port

road users, plum and pear trees come into Adelaide, oight miles from the city bloom in September.

All Trees and Berries There.

All Adelaideans agree

proper.

It's 116 Now and Then.

I was with a driver the other day who had a bad siid, and It gets mightly hot in Adelaide seriously alarmed the passengers in midsummer, 110 degrees being that every known yarlety of tree and recorded occasionally, but it is.ain the rear of the car. The skid berry fruit does well in their home dry desert heat and doesn't seem need not have been anything lika city and it seems queer enough to do any damage and anyhow the so bad if the driver had corrected that with so much delicious fruit Adelaidean can get away in an

with

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So I cast round in my

Having found a subtle way of conveying the information, I was astounded when the driver promptly agreed, but added: "İ ̧ like to let i skid develop a bit. It amuses the passengers.". His idea of "amusement

was

to be had for the asking, the con-hour or two to the cool watere of it sooner. sumption of meat still remains the ocean at Victor Harbour or mind for a phrase wherewith I the highest in the world per capita. any one of a dozen similar bathing could impart that information

When Col. Light laid out the bunches par excellence.

without appearing rude. We think of South Australia as city, 100 years ago, he never had' heard of a gas driven moter car,

a semi-desert land and yet the yet of all the cities I know, annual rainfall at Adelaide the Adelaide has been planned beat past 60 years has averaged 22 for the advent of the automobile, inches, which is nearly that its magnificently wide London and about the same streets, its great parks surround that of Sacramento, Calif. ing the city proper on all sides After many years of delay the and its boulevarda running into city authorities finally have finish strangely at variance with that of the country in all directions. ed a good-sized reservoir in the his passengers. I was alarmed If the South Australian govern-mountaine and the city is now myself-not because I did not ment ever gets enough money to assured of a two or three years' know that the skid could be cur Adelaide, South Australia, Jan. It's size, about 250,000, is almost pave these streets and boulevards, supply in case of drought, but rected in time, but beenuse the 16.-Or all Australian cities, exactly right-large enough to give Adelaide will be the long dreamed the facts are that South Australla, driver did not correct,

and in fact the entire continent And the driver of a car should has given mighty little attention always bear that difference of thus far to the supremely impor-viewpoint carefully in mind. The tant problem of water conserva-passenger's outlook on impending tion.

danger is always more marked than the driver's.

North Terrace, Adolaido, showing Public Library, Art Gallery, Museum, University and Exhibition Buildings. Noto the wide spaces provided for motor car parking.

.think Adelaide is my favourite.

one all reasonable metropolitan'

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should always take care not to A considerato driver, therefore, alarm his passengers. He should always drive so comfortably within the maximum control of the ear that, the passenger never has any doubt.

And in regard tơ a thing like A

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Man at the Wheel

have at last made their appear- stored in the Lofty mountains to

ance in London. Commenting on care for a city of a million and

Even assuming two equally surrounding agricultural popu-experienced drivers, the one at skid the driver mast always re- the interest aroused in the use of lation of as much more and some the wheel has always a more de-member that it necessarily appears vehicles of this type in London day, of course, it will be done.

tailed knowledge of the degree of much worse to the passenger and the provinces, Motor Trans- In the meantime, in an area of control under which the car is skid which does not cause half a nearly 400,000 square miles, after in any given circumstances.

second's worry to an experienced port refers to their advent as 100 years of settlement, South

driver may cause ersharp pang being another nail in the coilin of Australia boasts a population of

The driver, for example, may be of alarm to a less experienced the tramear: up to the present the about 1% to the square mile, controlling the car with 60 per passenger.

of the available brake more than half of whom are living cent.

only point where trams have within the metropolitan boun-efficiency still in hand. But the The first duty of a good driver scored over buses in England has daries of Adelaidel.

passenger only knows, that the car is to see that no unnecessary" The government is in control of is being controlled. There is no alarm is caused either, to a pas been in their "all-weather accom the Labour party, but Premier "touch on the brake pedal" to let senger or to any other road user.modation, so necessary in the Gana, alone of all the Australian him know of the reserve brake In these days these is quite enough fickle English-climate.

labour premiera, has roundly con- efficiency.

demned the tactics employed by the communist leaders in Aus- tralia and England and is regurd- ed as the outstanding conservative labour leader of Australia. As a result he enjoys the confidence of both capitalists, and workers to a remarkable degree.

"What I wish above everything," he said to mo to-day, "is to see: this vast region developed, settled by representatives of the White race who have come here to make; their homes. We want a land where men and women can live! and bring up their children to still further populate the land of Aus- tralia and to develop its soil and its industrial possibilities."

"Adelaide the beautiful," is no misnomer. "As 1 looked upon this elty nearly half way around the world from our own national capital--a city where they speak our language (almost), wear our shoes, many of them, write home Jon our typewriters and see our movies at night, I thought again the world is growing smaller each decade.

ASPHALT SKIDDING

TESTS.

For some time the municipal authorities of Paris, in paving the roads, have been substituting asphalt for wood and stone setta on the ground that this was a more economical method of road- making. But motorists, have always objected strongly to a road policy which they declared was converting the roads of Paris into a vast, skating rink on which motor traffic in wet weather was almost out of control. The matter i has now been officially teated "on a stretch of asphalt on the Boule- vard Victor. An ordinary touring car was driven along this at vary ing speeds, and the brakes sudden- ly applied, as though to avoid a collision. When travelling at: 12% miles an hour the car was pulled up within ten to fifteen yards, but not before it had turned

broadside on to its direction. At 20 miles an hour it spun com pletely round before. It stopped. It was pulled up in twenty to twenty-five yards when travelling | at 25 miles an hour, but in this cuse it not only spun completely round, but skidded backwards for some yards. Heavier vehicles behaved somewhat better, but they, too, could not be pulled up without dangerous skidding. AD those who witnessed the export- mant agreed that motoriste had fully Justified their objections.

unavoidable danger.

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