SIZE OF NEW SIGNS

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29270, 30 July 1960, Page 17

SIZE OF NEW SIGNS

Roads Board And A.A.’s Conflict The National Roads Board and some Automobile Associations are apparently in conflict over three inches of sign-posting. The A.A.’s feel strongly because, repeated hundreds of times over the whole country, the three inches could be costly. Standard road signs erected by A.A.’s under a subsidy agreement measured 4ft, the South Island Motor Union executive was informed yesterday. In the new classification of highways, the Roads Board suggested 4ft 3in. Automobile Associations were faced with costly and cumbersome work in extensions or erecting new signs. The extra money could be better used in other ways, delegates said. “I’m told that the new highway classification signs will be only, five miles apart and that sound very expensive to me,” said Mr E. C. Champion. The 4ft dimension was handy because conventional Bft sheets could be halved, said Mr E. R. Casbolt.

The meeting was informed that a conference between representative A.A, secretaries and Roads Board officers would be held next week in Wellington. “There is a lot more to be considered that 4ft or 4ft 3in,” said the president (Mr G. W. Ferens). "The heat of Auckland and the cold of Central Otago raise diflfioult problems in the construction and painting of signs and I-hope these matters will be talked over.” It was agreed that Mr E. S. Palliser (Canterbury) and P. F Harre (Otago) should be the secretaries representing the South Island Motor Union at the conference.