Road Killings Can Mar Holiday Season
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SEMPI IS.
Sir, — The f-ollowing headings appear* ed in a New Zealand daily on DecembeE 26 last, above two columns of accident reports: — HOLIDAY ACCIDENT TOLL SIX KILLED AND TWENTY-EIGHT INJURED IN TWO DAYS MANY MOTOR-CAR SMASHES CASUAL TIES THROUGHOUT THE LENGTH & BREADTH OF COUNTRY Twenty-eight persons alone were seri« ousiy injured between Christmas Eve and Boxing Day and there were at least 14 other casualties reported in tbo PreSs. Between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day there were at least 60 cases of serious injury in traffic accidents, ai well as a correspondingly larger num-> her of lesser casualties. With very many more cars registered this year than last year, and with» every indftafllon of an unprecedentett traffic rush in Christmas week, the pro« habilities of accidents are much gre»> er than they were at the end of 193&. I am concerned, as I am sure you are, with the possibilities of a recurrence of the slanghter on Christmafe Eve and succeeding days, and 1 feei that We should adopt every means possible of bringing home to the tourlng motorist the danger of taking risks in congested traffic: — Yours, etc.,
Minister of Transport.t Wellington, Dec. 16, 1937.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 73, 18 December 1937, Page 6
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