EXCESSIVE SPEED ON ROADS

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27639, 21 April 1955, Page 12

EXCESSIVE SPEED ON ROADS

Use Of Microwave I Detectors 3000 RICKETS ISSUED IN 8000 CHECKS (New Zealand Press Association) -WELLINGTON, April 20. Tickets for speeding have been handed to of the 8000 driven whose motor-vehicles have been checked by microwave detectors operted by the Transport Department. This was announced by the Minister of Transport (Mr W. S. Goosman) today. He said that t , '-‘ microwave detectors, designed and built in New Zealand, were more efficient than ■■ milar machines recently tested in Britain. The Minister was answering questions on a recent cable report about the British tests. It seemed 'clear that the equipment tested in England was of United States origin and not that developed by the Dominion Physical Laboratory in New Zealand, said Mr Goosman. The latest New Zealand model had a range of *OO yards for small vehicles and up to 800 yards for large vehicles, as compared with the range of 60 yards experienced in England. The New Zealand set cost much less than one man’s annual salary, and Its use reduced the cost cf traffic enforcement. An example of this was that 165 tickets were issued for excessive speed in one day. with one man operating the equipment and another officer with « radio issu'ng tickets to cars that could not be stopped at the check point because of traffic density.