DROWNING TRAGEDIES.
t, SERIOUS POSITION. (By Telograph.—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Sunday. Great as was the toll of the road, many more lives were lost annually in rivers and in the sea in New Zealand, said the Minister of Public Works, the Hon. R. Semple, when opening the Opnnake Surf Club's new building at Opunake. He asked how many people really appreciated the wonderful work done by New Zealand surf clubs, whose members risked their lives for the safetv of the community.
The comparative numbers of deaths on the roads and by drowning in an average month in the swimming season since 1931 were:—l93l, killed on roads, 13.2."); drowned, 2.V2; 1932. 13.2."i and 24.0; 1933, 10 and 25.4; 1934. 12.60 and 24.10, the Minister said. Surf clubs had saved 1799 people from drowning in the Dominion. If road accidents continued at the present rate, 2000 people would be killed and 40,000 injured, and unless something were done, even more would be drowned.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 283, 29 November 1937, Page 3
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