TRAFFIC CONTROL.
Home Office To Abolish Police On Point Duty. NEW CORPS TO BE FORMED. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 12 noon.) LONDON, November 2. The "Daily Express" states that the Home Office is formulating a new scheme of traffic control by abolishing the police as traffic controllers and forming instead a corps of 5000 road guards, later to be increased to 10,000, the cost to be borne partly by the State and partly by local authorities. It will consist chiefly of ex-soldiers, ex-sailors and ex-policemen. Motorists should benefit as the guards will be stationed at many dangerous crossroads where they will check reckless motorists. The police will also be relieved of the duty of making an elaborate report for every trivial motor car accident, which is valueless except to the motoring insurance companies.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 261, 3 November 1928, Page 9
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135TRAFFIC CONTROL. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 261, 3 November 1928, Page 9
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