USE OF ROAD SIGNS

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28836, 5 March 1959, Page 18

USE OF ROAD SIGNS

Interest Of Painters’ Guild Since signs had been posted on the corner of Bealey and Fitzgerald avenues by the traffic department of the City Council, the accident rate there had dropped from one a fortnight, to one every three months, said Mr E. R. Iteming (Canterbury), speaking at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Guild of Master Painters, Decorators, and Signwriters yesterday. He was supporting a re. mit brought forward by the Canterbury association which asked that the guild recommend to the Road Safety Council and the Commissioner of Transport that more use be made of roadside signs for road safety. Accidents on country roads were far worse than those in town, because of the time element, Mr Leeming said. Many country roads used insufficient signs. Signs should be so big that there was no posibility of overlooking them. Mr A. H. Paddison (Wellington) said that stretches of highway in the North Island, had been extensively signposted as testing areas by the Transport Department, particularly on the “guinea pig" highway just north of Wellington. . However, this was by no means general, and in the South Island there were no such areas, he said. The remit was passed.