A MAJOR TASK

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23618, 30 March 1940, Page 13

A MAJOR TASK

CONTROL OF TRAFFIC ASSEMBLY AT ORAKEI PROVISION FOR PUBLIC Police and traffic officers will be faced with a major task to-morrow afternoon in the handling of the vehicular and pedestrian traffic on the route of the funeral and on tjje ground surrounding the burial place. For the purpose of controlling the very heavy How of traffic expected, there will be a staff of 60 traffic officers, of whom will be drawn from the city traffic stalf, and the remainder will be supplied by suburban local bodies, the Transport Department and the Automobile Association. Sixty members of the police force will be available to assist with the traffic control, in addition to .'3O police, who will he on duty at the railway station and a further .'3O at Bastion Point. Official and Private Cars

Motor-cars which will carry official representatives in the funeral procession will assemble on the southern ramp at the station in The Strand at 1.45 p.m., and local representatives will be required to be seated by that time. Those coining from Wellington by the funeral train will embark immediately on arrival. Private cars which will follow the official cars in the procession will assemble in Stanley Street with their passengers by 1.45 p.m

Trains will be cleared from the route of the procession well in advance of the passing of the funeral, and the route will lie closed to vehicular traffic. Special Parking Areas

(In the arrival of the funeral at Kepa Road, the cortege will halt, and thy mourners will leave their ears nnd follow the gun carriage to Bastion Point. Special parking areas are being provided for the cars, and further space has heen allotted for cars conveying members of the public to the ceremony. When the burial has taken place, all private cars will be held until the official cars have been driven away. A considerable area of the land on Bastion Point will be available for the general- public, from which thcW' can witness the ceremony. An enclosure within the burial area will bo set aside for the official representatives, the balance being available for the general public. Approach from Waterfront Road

Members of trades unions and Labour Party branches will line the route approaching the burial place, and provision has been made for the parking of their cars in Coates Avenue and in Patteson Avenue.

Members of the public will also he able to approach the vicinity of the burial ground from the waterfront road, using the high level road near the Tamaki Yacht Club's premises. Only pedestrians will be allowed to use this route. A special stopping-place will be provided at this point for passenger buses. The parking of cars will he permitted on the waterfront road, hut they must park in single tile parallel to the kerb on either side of the road.

HUMANITARIAN WORK

HOSPITAL BOARD TRIBUTE The humanitarian work performed by Mr. Savage during his 12 years' service as a member of the Auckland Hospital Board is recalled in a message of sympathy telegraphed to the actingPrime Minister, the Hon. P. Fraser, by Ihe secretary of the board, Mr. C. L. Grange. The message was as follou's: —"The chairman and members of the Auckland Hospital Board mourn the passing of a great humanitarian Prime Minister—one who devoted his life to the improvement of conditions i'or his fellow men. They remember with gratitude liis valuable service and wise counsel as a member of the board over a long period of years, and sympathise with you and your colleagues in the loss of a loader who has rendered such signal service to New Zealand and to the Empire."