TRAFFIC CONTROL

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 17, 15 October 1926, Page 8

TRAFFIC CONTROL

POLICE JURISDICTION FOR PREFERENCE

The Auckland City Council's decision to control its own street traffic comes as something in the nature' of a surprise to most people who are interested in the subject here, as the general tendency seems to be tor the police to have control, which makes for uniformity in method.

Speaking to a DOMINION reporter yesterday the Mayor (Mr. C. J. B. Norwood) stated that he and Councillor M. Luckie (chairman of the By-laws Committee) had been appointed by the City Council to go into the whole matter with the Police Comniissiouer (Mr. Mcllveney), but owing to the. great rush of public and private work they had not bad an opportunity of doing so up to the present, but hoped for one at an early date. “1 would prefer to sec the street traffic under the control of the police,” said the Mayor, “as they represent the higher authority. Up to the present the work has been most efficiently carried out here by the police, and 1 hope we will be able to come to some mutually satisfactory arrangement whereby the police will take full control of the street traffic in Wellington.”