Residents want warning signs to remain
Woodend residents have appealed to their local member of Parliament, Mr D. F. Quigley, to stop the authorities removing their homemade warning signs on a dangerous corner in the township. Concerned residents nailed the signs last Tuesday to. lamp posts on the northern and southern approaches to “Butcher’s Corner,” the intersection of State highway 1 and Woodend Road. A spokesman for the deputation, Mr A. D. Wethey, said that Mr Quigley had agreed yesterday to ask the Ministry of Transport and the Rangiora District Council for a “stay of execution” on the unofficial signs. Mr Quigley
also promised to ask the Ministry about improvements to the corner which has been the scene of six accidents this year. The warning signs are due for removal this morning. “If they are taken down before Mr Quigley has a chance 'to speak to anyone the person taking them down could find a group of residents sitting round the poles,” said Mr Wethey. Other deputation members were the president of the Woodend Community Council, Mr R: Johnson, the local school headmaster, Mr P. W. Gregory and the chairperson of the school committee, Mrs E. Paget.
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