NATIONAL CAMPAIGN

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 135, 5 December 1938, Page 10

NATIONAL CAMPAIGN

BIG DEMONSTRATION

A PART FOR EVERYONE

There are a certain few aims and movements about which everyone is agreed; there is not one person in New Zealand who is not in full accord with the aim of the National Safety Week launched by the Minister of Transport and the Transport Department and opened in the churches throughout NeV Zealand yesterday and on the roads and streets and in schools today. It is a campaign directed to the greater safety of everyone who uses the roads and footpaths and is therefore something in which everyone can take an effective part, not necessarily by driving slogan cars or sticking stickers, but simply by being interested.

Though primarily directed at keeping holiday accidents at the very minimum—with none at all as the ideal—the National Safety Week has, of course, the greater aim of impressing upon road users the necessity of safety practices the year round. The campaign itself will prevent no accidents: whether there is to be a still further diminution in the loss of life and in maiming and material loss will depend wholly upon the co-operation of the roaduser, which is everyone.

At nine o'clock this morning the Deputy Mayor, Councillor M. F. Luckie, hoisted the "All Clear" pennant on the Town Hall flagstaff, and there it stays as long as the Wellington record is clean, but a serious accident will bring it to half-mast. Each centre and many of the smaller towns have hoisted pennants this morning, and the challenge has gone out from the Town Hall that Wellington's pennant will stay up longest.

Others at the Town Hall this morning were the Chief Traffic Officer, Mr. L. S. Drake; the City Engineer, Mr. K. E. Luke; Mr. E. A. Batt, chairman of the executive; Mr. E. Palliser, chairman of the roads committee; and Mr. W. A. Sutherland, secretary of the Automobile Association, Wellington.