HOLIDAY DEATHS
HEAVY TOTALS IN AUSTRALIAN STATES LAST YEAR’S FIGURES EXCEEDED. TRANSPORT MINISTER ISSUES WARNING. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.25 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Since Christmas Eve, fifty persons have been killed in New South Wales, 25 of them in road accidents. Last year’s total for the same period was thirty deaths, of which fifteen occurred on the roads. In Victoria 59 persons have lost their lives since Christmas Eve and nearly a hundred have been injured. Drowning accounted for 21 deaths and road accidents for 18. The New South Wales Minister of Transport, Colonel M. F. Bruxner, stated that motorists who wilfully flout traffic laws will' be given no quarter during 1939. “These people have been given a fair chance and now the gloves are off and we will see what sterner measures will do,” the -Minister observed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 January 1939, Page 6
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141HOLIDAY DEATHS Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 January 1939, Page 6
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