TRAFFIC CONTROL

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 102, 25 January 1943, Page 3

TRAFFIC CONTROL

Duties Of Corps Outlined

(By Telegraph. — Press AsKociuliou.) CHRISTCHURCH, January 24. Referring to tin* Traffic Control Corps Emergency Regulations gazetted this week, the Minister of Transport, MY. O’Brien, stated that the Trafhe Control Corps was set up last year as a military organization under the eommnud ot the Commissioner of Transport. ‘lf ls charged with the function of controlling traffic in an emergency through all rural areas and on main routes through the smaller boroughs.” the Minister said. "Tlie corps, which is attached to the Home Guard, replaces thy former emergency traffic police. It is organized in companies, each based on an area under the charge of a Transport Department traffic inspector. Each company is commanded by one of these inspectors, who. on general or local mobilization, assumes military rank and is directly responsible to the military commander m that Army Within its particular areas, said the Minister, the Traffic Control Corps would assist the Provost Corps in controlling military traffic and would also be responsible for controlling and directing civilian traffic. Control over vehicle movement during an alarm and over vehicle lighting if an alarm occurred at night were luuetions of the corps. It had a purpose in rural areas very similar to that ot the traffic section of the law and order branch of the E.l’.S. in larger ecu ires.. "The new regulation,” the Munster continued. "enables me as Minister to issue a warrant to any member of the corps, giving him full powers as a tralnc inspector. These powers are exercisable only when the member is called out on The statement was issued with the approval of the Army authorities.