HEAVY TRAFFIC.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 25, 31 January 1933, Page 3

HEAVY TRAFFIC.

VEHICULAR SERVICE.

HUNDRED CARS IN QUEUE.

CONGESTION AT DEVONPOBT,

A queue of motor veliiclcs stretclied from the Devonport wharf along King Edward Parade to past the North Shore Rowing Club's clubhouse for several hours last evening, being an accumulation of race traffic and the cars of holiday makers to the bays across the water. During the latter part of the afternoon and for several hours in the evening there was a regular procession of vehicular boats' on the. harbour, three vessels running six trips an hour. It is estimated that about 600 vehicles were brought back to the city.

The big volume of traffic is accounted for by the fact that many motorists had struck camp after spending either the day, the week-end or longer holidays at the* seaside. With the approach of the end of the school holidays many families are returning to the city, and there was a fair percentage of them in last evening's queue.

Though the vehicular boats got their fares away expeditiously, the line kept filling up, and until nine o'clock there were a hundred cars in lahe queue. Quite a number of motorists, on seeing the large number of waiting vehicles, decided to go for a drive, and were surprised to "lind on returning that the procession was just as long. The traffic was well handled by a traffic inspector and a constable, who saw that there was no "poaching" of positions.

The Northcote service, too, was heavily patronised, and a queue of cars ranged up the hill about a quarter of a mile long for some hours.