HOW TO GET THERE

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30803, 15 July 1965, Page 20

HOW TO GET THERE

: Some 5000 cars are ex- ■ pected to pour into Chert- ; sey on Saturday for the ; New Zealand ploughing fin- ! als if the weather is any- ■ thing like reasonable. ■ Arrangements to handle : this traffic were announc- : ed this week by Traffic Offi- • cer R. W. Fox, officer in ■ charge of the Ashburton ; district of the Transport : Department ■ From about 9 a.m. until • such time as the bulk of ; the traffic has reached the ; ploughing match site, traf- : fic approaching Chertsey • from Rakaia will not be • permitted to make a right ; hand turn across the rail- : way crossing a mile north ! of Chertsey. It will be ■ directed into the Chertsey ; line road by which it will : travel to the intersection : of the Chertsey Kyle road, • where it will turn right ■ across the railway line : and back to the State high- : way. Cars heading for the • ploughing will turn right ; again and proceed to the ; match ground. Traffic pro- : ceeding further south will ■ turn left into the State ■ highway after cressing the ; railway line. : All traffic from the south ! will enter the ground off ; the State highway and

during the morning no traffic from the south will be allowed to turn right into the Chertsey Kyle road. As traffic starts to leave the ground again in the afternoon, cars for the north will first be directed south into the State highway and will not be permitted to make a left hand turn across the railway line. This traffic will proceed south to the intersection with the Chertsey Kyle road and will turn north again into the Chertsey line road to regain the State highway. At the same time southbound traffic from Rakaia will be directed across the railway crossing to the north of Chertsey and will not be permitted to enter the Chertsey line road. In the afternoon traffic from the South will be directed Into the Chertsey Kyle road and may travel north by the Chertsey line road to rejoin the State highway. Traffic Officer Fox said that traffic officers would be on duty at all key points and no difficulty was anticipated provided drivers followed the instructions of the officers.