WELLINGTON’S TRAFFIC

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21940, 14 November 1936, Page 4

WELLINGTON’S TRAFFIC

REORGANISATION OF CONTROL “SLACKNESS AND LACK OP CONFIDENCE” (PUSS ASSOCIATION TK.XOSAU.) WELLINGTON, November 13. After a full enquiry into the working conditions and organisation of the Wellington City Council .Traffic Department, it has been decided by the council to make several changes in the staff and generally reorganise the department. A report from the city engineer (Mr K. E. Luke) described the discipline as being slack in certain directions, and said that the department was oversectionalised and that there was a lack of co-operation between the various sections. The report emphasised that the department had been badly understaffed and seriously hampered by inadequate office accommodation. Mr Luke recommended a rearrangement of the department into three main groups, namely, office administration and technical investigation, traffic control, and vehicle inspection. Mr Luke said that he found a certain slackness and lack of confidence among the traffic inspectors in the officer at present controlling them, and he recommended that Inspector T. Broughton, as senior inspector, be placed in sole charge of the outside staff, to be responsible only to the assistant chief traffic inspector. The council decided to transfer Mr G. N. T. Goldie from the city engineer’s department, to be assistant inspector in place of Mr F. W. McCourtie, who is to be vehicle inspector. The department will function under the assistant traffic inspector, who will be responsible to the chief traffic inspector. Mr Luke said that the chief traffic inspector should be given the opportunity, which he did not at present enjoy, of devoting himself more to the administrative side of the department.