Directions from highways board
With the object of bringing some uniformity to the signposts on New Zealand roads the Main Highways Board has issued the following recommendations:
(a) The site to be such as to secure (after considering the objective of the sign) the maximum visibility, the full length of post and signs to be visible.
(b) The arms shall not project front the signposts over the actual roadway or so near thereto as to cause danger of collision therewith when vehicles are passing one another on the road.
(c) Direction arms shall point along general direction of the road indicated.
(d) Lower arms should indicate the more important roads.
(e) The height of the lowest arms above ground shall be a minimum of 6 feet, and a maximum of 6ft 6in.
(f) The length of arms (including route number) minimum 3ft and maximum 4ft.
(g) Depth of arms (including route number) minimum 7in.
(h) Separation between arms, 2in.
(i) Lettering: Black on cream (made with good white lead and Italian ochre). Depth of letter for single line, 4in; for double line, 3in. Division between lines, 1in. Route numbers, 4in, block figure on cream ground in black line oval.
(j) Posts to be of dressed hardwood not less than 4in x 4in, treated from base and for 1ft above ground line with a wood preservative and painted similarly to arms.
(k) The arms or notices on signposts to be of durable dressed timber (preferably kauri) one inch in thickness and fixed to signposts with galvanised coach screws not less than 3in long or with square headed bolts with washers underneath. Arms to be scarfed into signposts to thickness of arms.
The Main Highways Board has allocated members for all declared main highways, and anticipates that each of these main highways will, in time, come to be known by its number. The board has issued maps of both the North and South Islands on which are shown all main highways with their respective numbers.
South Dunedin booming
The progress of Dunedin is evident to any person who cares to look round and note, among other things, the new buildings that are being erected and the improvements to existing buildings. The latest example is in Cargill Road, South Dunedin, in the vicinity of St Peter’s Church. In this portion of the city several handsome shops are now approaching completion. It is also noticeable in this quarter that a part of the large area hitherto used for the raising of vegetables is being brought into requisition for building sites and, when there is still a demand for ground for houses, one wonders why some of the land at the rear of the Benevolent Institution is not put to better use than it is today.
— ODT, 29.6.1925 (Compiled by Peter Dowden)
