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WEDNESDAY, MARCH

tion_possessed a copy. It lea delightful book and provides, in the most refreshing way, a history of the Automobile Association from Ito foundation in 1995 down to the present day when it boasts a nem- bership of 400,000 and a revenue from subscriptions and entrance feen excceding £800,000 sterling. AB Secretary of the Automobile PARKING SPACES. Association Mr. Stenson Cooke is the chief officer of the world's Another appeal for more men largest motoring organisation, to bers was made by the Prest which we are allied or federated, dent, Mr. L., C. F. Bellamy, at the | and members of our own local Annual General Meeting of the Association may join the parent Hongkong Automibile Association, Automobile Association without which was hold yesterday after-entrance fee and at an annual Bub. noon in the Board Room of Messrs.scription of 1% instead of the Jardine, Matheson and Co., Ltd.

usual 2 guineAK. After the Hon. Secretary, (Mr. B. D. Evans) had read the notice con- vening the meeting, Mr. Bellamy sald:

One of our members (Mr. V. Walker) was on leave in England last year and decided to try a run through France into Spain and he found that the A. A. make this a

Gentlemen,The accounts for the year ended December 31st, 1931, have been in your hands for very simple business. They Ex you

up with your International certi a week and I think we may there-ficate for the car and your Interna- fore take them as read. You will tional driving permit and either a observe that our cash position has Triptyque or a Customs Carnet. improved during the

year by

A book called the "Foreign Tour- $802.00 but this will not go verying Guide" la also issued with, far towards the annual cost of the every set of customs documents. four new patrols that your Com- miller has recently engaged.

We now have eight patrols (4 Indian and 4 Chinese) and this item constitutes our major expense-

The armas patrolled are:-(1) The car park in Salisbury Rond, Kowloon, (2) The car park in Chater front of the City Hall, (3) Rond, (4) Statue Square, (5) Connaught Road between Pottinger Street and Murry Road, Ferry Transport Across Harbour. Members may still purchase one book of 10 Highter tickets per quarter at $15.00 per book. If full advantage were taken of this privilege a member would науч $20.00 per annum. Le, duuble the amount of his annual subscription.

Actuarially, therefore. this scheme is quite unsound but the concession is, I am glad to Hay, greatly appreciated by those mem- bers who have occasion frequently to take their ears across the har-

bour.

It is confidently expected that the new vehicular ferry will be in operation before our next annual meeting and the question as to whether this concession will then be withdrawn must be a matter for the consideration of the Incom- Ing Committee.

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Those members who have ocen sion to use Stubbs Road appreciate the white lines which are now so Oliver Twist. they ask for more. They say that driving would be greatly facilitated If the white linea were continuous (along both straight and curves) within the fog belt, i.e. between the Peak Hotel and. say, Wanchal Gap or a little lower.

the city. Meanwhile, however, think the Police have treated generously having regard to the claims of taxis and public cars. As to the suggestion that private ears should be allowed to park, for a limited period, against the kerb on the west side of Pedder Street between Des Voeux Road and

In this connexion it la interest- Queen's Road, I see no prospect of this being permitted unless Peddering to note that the Brighton Cor- poration in conjunction with the Street is made a one-way street. A. A. has recently been experiment- An effort was made by the As-ing with yellow rather than white sociation to purchase A certain

lines with very satisfactory results plece of ground for a parking place both by day and by night. but the scheme could not be pro- ceeded with on account of the prohibitive cost.

Third Party Insurance.

In both Great Britain and Electric Horns.

Northern Ireland "third party" in- surance is now compulsory und There is a paint I should like to motorista contemplating visits to mention in connexion with the these countries should take warn- noise caused by the unnecessary ng from a case which arose out of use of electric horns and siremthe recent general election. Traffic Police have instructions to A Major Bray had lent his car abate this nuisance as far as

pox- for use during the election and the sible and I hope members will

Co-car (which was not covered against operate with the Police in

this third party risk) had an accident matter. The chief offenders

are in London. Not only was the professional drivers, and

those driver of the car, fined twenty members of the Association who shillings or thirteen days' imprison- employ chauffeurs will help the ment hul the official in charge of authorities materially by issuing le Conservative candidate's com- a timely warning.

mittee rooms (for causing the car to be used without a third party insurance policy) was fined £3 or 21 days' imprisonment..

The attention of the Police fa directed not only to the excessive sounding of horns but also to the excessively high pitch of the nolu emitted by these horns. The pitch should be adjusted to a low ( medium tone which, whilst giving adequate warning, does not jar the nerves of the public.

Road Traffic Act 1930.

I do not propose to review this very comprehensive Act but will brielly refer to a very few of its provisions. The speed limit ra The British Automobile Assn.

abolished for cars and motor cycles but very severe penulties may be Mr. Stenson Cooke recently sent imposed for dangerous or reckless a copy of his book "This driving. Motor buses and motor Motoring and I would like to think coaches on pneumatic tyres may that every member of our Associa- travel nt 30 m.p.h.

nie

SALESMAN SAM

KET, YOU, GIT QUTA, HERE? I JUST" CLEANED THIS

ALLEY UP!

OKO

30, 1932.

The minimum

of motor- cyclists has been raised from 14 to 16 years and that of bus and lorry drivers from 17 to 21 years but 17 remains the minimum age of a motor car or van driver.

Whereas there existed, prior to the passing of this Act. twelve hundred and ninety-eight separate authorities in Great Britain authorised to licence motor buses and conches there are now only thirteen.

HOSPITAL TRAGEDY.

PATIENT STATED TO HAVE COMMITTED, SUICIDE.

A Chinese wireless operator of the Government Radio Department is believed to have committed uicide at the Government Civil Hospital yesterday afternoon when, according to n Police report, he Jumped over the verandah.

I have been naked to any whether Admitted to the hospitat on Mon- there are any towns in England lay, Int Shau, aged 43, of 33, Wes- where a motorist is forbidden to tern Street, was a patient in Ward pass a stationary tramcar on the No. 11, and about 2 p.m. yesterday near side. I know of none. In he is stated to have jumped over Scotland, however, tho aanich recrnil floor verandah. When regulation applies in Glas- picked up he was found to be suf- Row and Edinburgh HLJ intering from a fractured-skull and Hongkong. In view of the pro-other injuries. Notwithstanding visions in the new Act relating to immediate attention by the hos- reckless driving it is improbable pital staff ho auccumbed three that this regulation will be further hours Inter. extended In Great Britain. Only

one witness is required (under the posed rond will prove a sound Gov- Act) to prove reckless, dangerourernment lnvestment. or careless driving.

ad.

More Members Wanteil. In his excellent broadenst dress on December 14th Jast Mr. Hodgson stressed the need of more members. He said there were n great many private owners of motor cars in the Colony who were not members of this Association. I have looked Into this matter and find that there are not less than 1,900 private cara licenced in the Colony and not less than 170 motor cycles. Last year 540 motor car owners were members of our Asa- sociation and 26 motor cyclist mem

bers.

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I now beg move the adoption of the Accounts for the year 1931 and after this has been seconded I shall do my best to answer queation which may arise.

Oncers Elected. The following officers elected for the ensuing year:

President-Mr. A. Stevenson. Vice-President.—Mr.

Manners.

were

C. M.

B. D.

Hon. Secretary.-Mr. Evans.

Hon. Treasurers.~~Messrs. Lin- stead and Davis.

Committee. Mesara. Bellamy, A. II. Carroll, L. G. Dodwell, C. C, Hickling, P. M. Hodgson, M. K. Lo, Ho Leung, H. Hong Sling, G. H. Wilson and G.E.S. Upsdell.

This is a poor percentage and 1 do appeal to those private car and not motor cycle owners who are

Mr. C. C. Hickling said he notic members to come along and joined that the President, in his ad- Obviously the larger our mem-dress, referred to the noise caused bershin the greater, the scope for by the unnecessary use of electric broadening our activities. If the horns and girens. He understood Asrociation could double' its mem- that the Police would welcome the bership it would be in a position to co-operation of members of the A. develop along certain lines and in-A. in abating this nuisance, but he erense benefits and

facilities to would like to point out that members in a way which is impos- Police regulation which appeared sible with a restricted membership. wome weeks ago stated something This Association owes a great to this effect, "On approaching deal to its lion. Secretary. Mr. Ball corners and curves, all motorists D. Evans, but we cannot expect him shall sound their horns." indefinitely to put all his evenings

"In Hongkong where you very at our disposal and he is par

eldom come across a road in which ticularly anxious that the Associa

You cannot find a corner or a curve tion should be in a position to

in 50 yards." went on Mr. Hickling, employ a full time Secretary. 'I don't see how we can co-operate hope, therefore, that we shall with the Police without causing a shortly see our membership very breach of the Police regulations !" considerably increased so that the Mr. M. F. Key suggested that excellent work which the Associa-perhaps the military authorities tion is doing for private car owners could be willing to convert the in the Colony enn be expanded and north the benefits extended,

end of Murray Parade Ground into an underground car In conclusion I should like to re-ark by removing the earth and fer to the Snikung Road project roofing the space over with con- in the New Territories. In his rete to the level of the rest of Budget speech on September 5th, the round.

1929, the Colonial Secretary called Mr. Stevenson said the Idea was attention to the proposed Circular not a new one, but had been dis- Eastern Road. The wonderful cussed before, the difficulty being possibilities of this enterprise have the emergence of cars from the bean stressed on many aubsequent parking ground into the stream of Occasions particularly by Mr. F. C.traffic in Queen's Road.

Mow Fung the retiring President Mr. Key suggested that when of the K.R.A, at their Inst Annual the City Hall is demolished and Meeting and also by our old friend the Bank and Beaconsfield Arcade Mr. E. W. Carpenter on the eve of Jure reballt, a new lay-out of the. his recent departure from the area might make the idea practi- Colony.

cable. All members of this Association Before the meeting terminated, earnestly hope that Government | Mr. P. M. Hodgson proposed a vote finances will soon render it pos of thanks to the retiring President, sible to proceed with the Saikung Mr. Bellamy who, he said, had Rand achemo and your Committee done a lot for the Association dur-

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