DEFINING MAIN ROADS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18297, 13 January 1923, Page 10

DEFINING MAIN ROADS.

TRAFFIC TO BE CHECKED. DEPARTMENTAL SCHEME. LOCAL BODIES TO ASSIST. [BY telegraph.---own correspondent.] '.V. TATJRANGA. Friday. At a meeting of the County Council to-day, the following letter addressed to the country engineer, from Mr. J. ,V. Haskell,' for the district engineer of the Public Works Department, Taurauga, was read ;' -■;■■...'-;; '"When the Highways Board undertakes its investigations to determine under what classes the most important traffic.roads may be placed, it will be necessary to say what traffic they at present carry. In order to be in possession of reliable data, tallies of traffic over considerable periods of time should be available. Will you, therefore,, as from January 1, 1923, if possible, and until further notice, keep a tally of the daily traffic from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in accordance with the attached forms ? At the end of each quarter returns are to be forwarded to this office.

"In the meantime will you kindly arrange for all possible information in respect to traffic on that portion of the 'lar.ranga and Whakatano road in your county, to be submitted to this office at the 6nd of January, 1923." The schedule accompanying the letter contained columns for showing statistics regarding ■ motor-lorries, coaches, four-wheeled buggies, gigs, fourwheeled waggons, drays, saddle horses, loose horses, cattle, sheep, motor-cycles, push cycles, traction engines, and motorploughs. The county engineer said he had interviewed Mr. Haskell on the subject. The Minister for Public Works wanted a tally kept on the section of road from Tauranga to Waihi. The Public Works Department's workmen would take a tally on that length. The department desired that a tally should be taken by the council from Tauranga to Otamarakau. He had communicated with the council's foremon in the eastern portion of the county and asked them to make tallies as fully as the time worked by them on the main county road would permit. , The action' of the engineer was, confirmed. , ;