A GOOD IDEA

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 182, 19 November 1941, Page 5

A GOOD IDEA

SCHOOL SAFETY PATROLS

APPRECIATED BY PARENTS

Speaking at the meeting of Automobile Association members, rcfcience was made to the A.A. system of Child Safety Patrols. This innovation, he said, was designed to pro-tect-the school children from crossing the road in front of the school and to impress on the young minds the vital necessity of never stepping out into a motor roadway without first stopping on the edge of the kerb and looking both ways to see if a motor car was' coming. The ■ Association co-operates with headmaster!? and supplies free of charge to every school which operates Safety Patrols smart uniform coats and caps, arm and lapel badges, safetj r text books, and generally assists in the matter of instruction and supervision. The speaker said that the A.A. was very prou(d of the 1 fact that no child had been injured on a roadway outside a school where the Safety Patrol system was in operation* The Association first inaugurated School Safety Patrols in the Auckland district 9 years ago. At the School Safety Convention to be held in Auckland in December it is anticipated that 500 Safety Patrols would attend.

That the value of the Association's work in regard to the *afety of school children was receiving national recognition was extremely gratifying and it was announced that the Government shortly would introduce regulations legalising School Crossings, and providing for the establishment of a dominionwide system of School Safety Patrols. The Transport Department, said the speaker was to be commented for its, enterprise in following the lead established by the Automobile Association.