“SOAP-BOX DERBIES”
GOVERNMENT’S OBJECTION STATED (PA.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 28. while the proposed “soap-box Derbies’* in the various centres of New Zealand would probably be • adequately controlled, there would be undoubted repercussions from the contests which were most undesirable, said Mr F. Hackett, acting for the Minister of Transport in a statement to-night explaining the department’s view on the proposal. Fatalities had occurred through boys riding in trolleys, and the contests, ffl spite of the safety rules for their conduct, would cause a revival of trolley riding in the streets —only too often with serious consequences to life limb. Mr Hackett said. Whether held on public roads or on private property, the contests would encourage hazardous and often disastrous trolley riding practices, which otherwise were steadily disappearing.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25300, 27 September 1947, Page 8
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