TRAFFIC CONTROL

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 437, 19 May 1937, Page 5

TRAFFIC CONTROL

Issue Of Driving Licenses Press Association —Copyright. Auckland, May 18. A proposal to constitute the Auckland City Council as the only body in the Auckland area with power to issue motor drivers’ licenses was propounded before a meeting of local body representatives by the Minister of Tiiansport, Hon. R. Semple, to.day. Under the scheme the council would also have to take full responsibility for the control of traffic throughout the area. After the Minister had fully explained his proposals they were commended in detail without dissent. “At Auckland there are no fewer than 17 independent authorities controlling traffic,” Mr Semple said. “One of our first difficulties in trlaffie control lay in the multiplicity of bylaws. We have got over that with the issue of national regulations and the national road code, but we have to have a greater measure of unified control. “The existence of 17 independent authorities in the Auckland metropolitan area is typical of what is happening elsewhere. We have compiled and I am definitely convinced that the major cause of accidents is the prevalence of incompetent. drivers. The test for the driving license is not (applied as it should be.”