TRAFFIC REGULATION.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18905, 21 January 1927, Page 6

TRAFFIC REGULATION.

WORK OF THE INSPECTORS. AN AUCKLAND ASSOCIATION. With the object of securing co-opera-tion in dealing with traffic problems a body known as the Auckland Suburban Traffic Inspectors' Association has been formed (says the "New Zealand Herald"). At present tho Association includes representatives from local bodies in Newmarket, Unehunga,. Takapuna Mount Albert, Avondale, New Lynn and Mount Eden, and other local bodies have been invited to join the Association. The objects of the Association are to promote unanimity and concord with the police and to assist them generally in controlling traffic: to arrange periodical meetings to discuss traffic laws and problems; to assist one another in verifying addresses and obtaining statements when process is contemplated, thus saving time and expense; to work jointly to enforce the provisions of the Motor Vehicles Act and Motor LorryRegulations, and detecting other ofTences; to make representations to the Government in all matters where difficulties are experienced in administering motor vehicle laws; and to use every effort to bring about universal laws for the benefit of motorists and r.Uo protection of the public. As the result of several meetings of the Association, the following recommendations were considered essential: (1) All local authorities should appoint a traffic inspectors should be sworn in as special constables to enable them to enforce the provisions of sections 32 (2) of the Motor Vehicles Act; (4) each inspector should bo given authority in writing in accordance with regulation 15 (1) of the Motor Lorry Regulations, 1925, this authority to be endorsed by other local bodies so that inspectors can act in any area in conjunction with their inspector; (5) load-metera should be purchased jointly for use by the inspectors and weighbridges should be established in important centres; (6) local authorities should take full advantage of section 21 (1) of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1924. to issue driving licenses, and of regulation 10 (2) of the Motor Lorry Peculations, 1925, and issue heavytraffic licenses. It is considered that if these recommendations were adopted they would tend-to localise registration and supervision, and the revenue for road-mak-in* would bo considerably increased. The Mount Eden Borough Council has donated £2 and the Newmarket Borough Council £2 2s to the funds of the Association.