PETROL CONSERVATION
ISSUE OF PAMPHLETS With every drivers license issued at the Whakatane County or Borough Offices is presented a pamphlet designed to impress on drivers the necessity for a conservation of petrol resources by reducing speed. It is stated that the main cause of deaths and injuries in motor accidents, which together with the property damage costs New Zea- I land £1,000,000 annually, is excessive speed. A table presents comparisons in costs as speed rises and shows that the running cost per mile at 25 m.p.li. is 1.54 d, at 35 m.p.h. 1.88(1, at 45 m.p.h. 2.21 d, at 55 m.p.h. 2.86 d and at 65 m.p.h. it increases to 3.53 d per mile.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 167, 31 May 1940, Page 5
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115PETROL CONSERVATION Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 167, 31 May 1940, Page 5
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