ROAD SAFETY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 108, 8 May 1937, Page 12

ROAD SAFETY.

GOVERNMENT BOOKLETS.

RIGHTS AND DUTIES EXPLAINED.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON*, Friday.

"One of the major measures being taken by the Government in the interests of road safety is the distribution of the road code," said the Minister of Transport, the Hon. R. Semple, to-day. "Supplies of booklets containing the code, and a summary of the traffic regulations, with illustrations of traffic signs, will be dispatched within the next few days to all local authorities which issue drivers' licenses. A second booklet, giving the full text of traffic signs and regulations, and containing a detailed index, is also being distributed.*'

Local authorities, he said, had been specially requested to ensure that every person jbtaining a renewal of a license or Oo new license received a copy of each booklet. Arrangements had also been made to send the road code booklet to each home in the country, so that pedestrians and cyclists, as well as motorists, might be able to inform themselves of their rights and their duties under the recently-amended legislation governing all classes of traffic.

"A few minutes spent in reading the code will be time well spent by the driver, cyclist or pedestrian, who has any regard for his or her own safety. I earnestly hope that an everyday observance of the rules and a substantial decrease in accidents will follow."