SEE HOW THEY GO

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 560, 12 January 1929, Page 5

SEE HOW THEY GO

TRAFFIC TO TOURIST RESORTS 276 CARS A DAY AT MAMAKU (From Our Oiru Correspondent) PUTARURU, Friday. Reporting to the Matamata County Council at its January meeting, the engineer. Air. M. E. Fitzgerald, gave the following interesting returns of traffic tallies at points passed by many tourists:— •Tallies of traffic between 6 sum. and 10 p.m. between December 22 and January 4 inclusive disclose that 3.563 motor vehicles went over the Mamaku Hill to Rotorua. This is an average of 276 a day. New Year's Day was highest with 392. The increase over last year is about 40 per cent., and over the previous year about 400 per cent. A decrease in the number of service cars is recorded. "Over the Kaimai Hill. 816 motor vehicles were recorded, giving an average of 58 a day and an increase of 25 per cent, over last year. Service cars dropped from 12 to six a day, while other cars increased from 29 to 45. Tho highway through Tokoroa to Taupo carried 1,894. or a daily average of 135 motor vehicles, which is prac—tically the same as last year, but the number of motor lorries increased from 10 to 17 a day. “While these figures show a general increase of 20 per cent, over last year and 150 per cent, over the previous year, I do not think they tel! the whole story by reason of the fact that motor traffic is being distributed over a greater number of days in each, year and not confining itself to the short holiday periods as it formerly did.”