LONDON CONFERENCE

Hokitika Guardian, 16 January 1930, Page 6

LONDON CONFERENCE

TO' DEVISE, SAFETY MEASURES. (British Official Wireless). RUGBY, Jan. 14. The conference on the street accidents in London, convened by the Hon Air Morrison, Minister of Transport, began to-day. Mr Morrison, who presided, said that it was inevitable, with the development of modern transport, that the risk to the public, including the pedestrians, should be increased. They might hope, however, that the children who were growing up in the midst of the fast-moving motor traffic would be able to adapt themselves to the new conditions better than the old generation had been able to do. He recommended to the careful and sympathetic study of the Conference the Road Traffic Bill, which, he hoped, would be passed in the present session of Parliament. It was hoped, he said, to make the law very much more up to date and he believed the Bill would do much more to enable the Ministry of Transport to take further steps to prevent the spread of accidents in Great Britain as a whole. He attached very great importance' to the provision in the Bill for enabling the Ministry to publish a code of road conduct. He said: “We do not need a dogmatic code, but substantially an authoritative code, Worked out by the technical officers of the Ministry, after consultation with all of the representative organisations, so that the public generally shall know li.ow !to conduct themselves on the King’s highway.