SAFETY ON ROADS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 402, 8 April 1937, Page 6

SAFETY ON ROADS.

GOVERNMENT'S CAM- . PAIGN. Mr. R. Semple On Results. Press Association —Copyright. Wellington, April 7. “I am pleased to say that as a result of our road safety campaign during the last six months on the Law of averages we have kept- more than 300 people out of their coffn hundreds of others out of hospital,' said* the Minister of Transport. Hou. R. Semple, at! the official opening of the new Ford assembly factory at Lower Hutt to-day. The Department, added ihe Minister, was doing all it could to bring home to the people the. lesson of safeJy firs;, last and all the time. He ViPuldl not be satisfied until the .maxi mum point of safety had been reached. In his opinion 95 per cent, of the tragedies on the highways and by ways of New Zealand were preventable. It was just a question of t ach ing men and women io become, masters of their own inventive genius. The problem of reducing the appalling number of deaths on the road was not confined to New Zealand, said Mr Semple. It was a problem with which thinking men and women in every country were wrestling. “It is a problem as old as the machine itself, but when we allow raf ferty rules to ap,>ly on the highways and byways, then we can expect trouble," continued Mr S-emj/le. “We might have expected whrt we have got because we ha‘.e beer looking for it’. If we set out to te?ch men and women that a pleasure-giving machine can be turned into a deathdealing agency We will be teaching them how to protec'; tl em.s'lves.”