ROAD ACCIDENTS
IMPROVEMENT EBBENTIAL FITNESS WEEK SIGNIFICANCE (By Telegraph.— Press Association) KAITAIA, Thursday “A vast improvement in the accident rate is necessary if Physical Fitness Week is to have any real significance for a large number of road users,” said the Minister o r Transport, the Hon. R. Semple, to-day. “Physical fitness is a wonderful ideal, but its value is lost if more than 10,000 citizens are incapacitated on the roads of New Zealand every two years.
"Many of these unfortunate people are now permanently prevented from attaining one hundred per cent bodily soundness. We all appreciate the aims of the physical fitness campaign, and it is our responsibility to preserve physique and to avert human suffering. Yet on the roads of New Zealand each month nearly 500 people are injured in traffic accidents. Earlier this month fatal accidents occurred on four consecutive days and 12 lives have been lost in road accidents dutiuz the month.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20739, 24 February 1939, Page 6
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156ROAD ACCIDENTS Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20739, 24 February 1939, Page 6
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