Traffic Training

Gisborne children learned a great deal about traffic behaviour last week when the "Shell Traffic Trainer" came to the city. The unit, donated by Shell Oil, consists of a set of miniature streets, complete with intersections, compulsory stops, pedestrian crossings, etc., and a small fleet of pedal-cars and bicycles.

Set up on the tarmac at Central School, it proved to be an ideal method of training children in traffic behaviour. In the pedal-cars, they learnt something of the motorist's problems.

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Picture above shows a demonstration in progress before an interested gallery of school children, traffic authorities, and parents.

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The demonstration in progress

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Mr T. S. McArthur, Wellington Shell manager, and the Mayor, Mr Barker, using one of the pedestrian crossings during the demonstration.