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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1931.

THE A. A. ANNUAL

MEETING.

COVERED PARKING SPACE PROBLEM.

BATHING PROVISION.

-During the past year your Com mittee have met many times in this Board Room for the use of which I wish to express our grateful thanks to Mesara, Jardine Matheson & Co. Ltd. We have discussed at length many matters of importance to motoring In this Colony and ad the number of private owners in- crease and ruoro and more roads are opened to motor cars so the problems and matters which come

up for discussion multiply. I

The question of the provision should like at this juncture to ex- of covered parking spaces in the press appreciation and thanks to city was raised at the annual the Members of your Committee. In meeting of the Hongkong Automo- which I feel certain you will all bile Association held at Messrs. concur, for the generous manner in which they have one and all Jardine, Matheson's yesterday, given many hours of their leisure when the President (Mr. P. M. time to the welfare of the motor- Hodgson) in reply to one of the ing public in this Colony. It is members, said the great difficulty seldom that there is not a full at- was that there was no sphco intendance of your Committee at their the middle of the city, and, meetings and such meetings usual- ly last at least two hours and then although a site had been suggest their labours are not finished as in- ontrusted ed near the Cricket ground, it dividual members are would mean a concrete structure with certain tasks, interviews with being erected, and he did not Officials, and enquiries which must think the funds of the Assocla-take up much more of their time.

You owe, I consider, a great debt tion would permit the expense.

The covered parking space questo these gentlemen and it is more tion was raised by Mr. A. Hicka in this connexion that I would ap- who said he had been very much peal to all private owners of this Chairman's Colony to join us If they are not al- iinpressed with the speech when he spoke of the ameni-ready members. tles provided by the Association, and there was no doubt they did n

I read with interest the leading great deal of good work, whilst they wore very grateful to know that in articles in the South China Morning the

near future there were prospects Post and the Hongkong Telegraph for bathing facilities. Referance dealing with the Annual Meeting had been made to the question of of Kowloon Residents' Association parking and he would like to ask and the admirable address given by if the provision of covered parking the Rev. J. Horace Johnston. places had received the attention of the comittee, and if any representa tions had been made to the Govern-apply similarly to this Association: ment on the subject. In the sum-) mer, many people who had to leave their cars in the town found they suffered a great deal from both sun and rain. He knew it was a very difficult problem, but if the com- mittee had been considering the question he thought it was in the interests of the members to know how matters stood.

A Real Benefit,

Quoting from the two lending urticles the following seem to me to

"May it continue to be the aim of the Committee to view local knowledge and keonest local interest but at the same time in the broadest light as they stand related to the interest of the Colony in general;"

again,

"We aro left wondering whether the public really ap The Chairman, in reply, said that

preciates to the full all that is the question had been considered

done for it by a body of men by the committee, but it was an ex-

who have no axes to grind and tremely difficult matter because the

who give freely of their time of question of the construction

and labour for the common weul." ronds came into the argument.

as the It is such associations There was no space available in the middle of the town for a covered Kowloon Residents' Association and parking place, though there were the Hongkong Automobile Associa one or two places a little way from tion and kindred associations that the city. In the city itself it was are a real haneft. They must be very difficult indeed. They could of great assistance to the Govern- get any space in the middle of ment of this Colony and it behoves the road, but one or two places had all those who are eligible for mem- been considered, one being by the berahip to that association or as- cricket ground, but the question of soclations with which they are con give expense came in. They would not cerned to rally round and be allowed to put up a wooden them unstinted support and en- structure, it would have to be in couragement. If they do not I say concrete, and he did not think the they were neglecting an obvious funds of the Association would civic duty. allow them to do that. The matter was still before the committee, and if it was possible to do anything they would be glad to do so.

not

Satisfactory Finances,

Parking Problems

Turning to a few matters that have required attention during the past year the old question of park- ing has again given your Com-

The Chairman, in proposing the mittee much thought. The limited adoption of the report and accounts space in this congested city and said Gentlemen-The Accounts the increasing number of new cars of this Association for the year coming on the streets, in spite of 1930 the low exchange, makes it very ending the 31st December, have been in your hands for some difficult to find space but on the the parking arrangements days and with your permission I whole will take them as read. In con- are satisfactory. nexion therewith you will see that The new electric light night and the Gnancial status la eminently day signals at the most important points are now understood and are satisfactory.

The Membership of the Associa- think generally better than the tion has increased but not to the hand signalling.

The Roads in the Colony are I extent it ought to have having re- gard to the large number of maintain as good as the average licensed owners of private cars in motor roads in many of the more connexion with which I shall say important cities of the world and

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