TRAFFIC INSPECTORS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 331, 12 January 1937, Page 6

TRAFFIC INSPECTORS.

Equipped With Powerful Cars

And Sirens.

Press Association—Copyright. Wellington, To-day.

By the e,nd of the month 43 traffic inspectors under th e Main Highways Board will be patrolling roads throughout New Zealand. Fourteen new inspectors, some of whom have already taken up their duties, were recently apointed. Others have not yet completed their training. For the purposes of administration each island in the Dominion has been divided into two groups, with a chief traffic inspector in charge of each section. It will, therefore, be possible for the chief inspectors to adjust their organisation to the traffic requirements on special occasions, such as race days.

Each traffic inspector is equipped with a powerful motor-car and a siren to warn offending motorists, but apparently there are drivers who are unaware of this device.

“It is amazing how many people have never heard a traffic inspector’s siren,” on e inspector told a reporter yesterday. “That may be a tribute to their driving—or it may be luck.”