AUSTRALIAN PRAISES OUR SAFE ROADS
. WELLINGTON, Feb. 20. "You have the safest"roads in the woild as far as accidents are con'cerned, " said Mr. T. G. Paterson, Fed eral secretarv of the Automobile Assu- • ciation, Australia, during an inforinal ! report 011 his observations in New Zea 'land, to a meeting of the North Tsland i Motor Union today. He said the sat'ety jrecord could not be entirely attributed ' to safe road surfaces" liecause Australia, I on vvhole, was better scrved in thai ! vva.v. I-le thought the reason New Zea j land had the lowest road death rate in j the world and Australia the second ! highest, was due to the road safety j campaign, of which he could not speak I too highly, and also the warrants of fitness system and traffic control.
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Chronicle (Levin), 21 February 1947, Page 2
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