Juvenile Law-Enforcer
“Drivers pay me a lot of respect,” said a member of a school traffic patrol on duty outside the Newtown School, Wellington, when describing the reactions of drivers to his enforcement of the traffic laws. Dressed in a light mackintosh complete with sou-wester and white gauntlets, he supervised the passage of children across the pedestrian crossing with an authoritative air. When a small car ignored his signal to stop, he immediately repeated its registration number. “I don’t need to write it down,” he said, when offered a pencil. “We are trained to observe and remember car numbers; I won’t forget it.” ’
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 94, 3 July 1946, Page 6
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103Juvenile Law-Enforcer Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 94, 3 July 1946, Page 6
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