BROKEN GLASS IN PUBLIC PLACES
Petitioners Seek Prevention
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, June 12. A petition was presented to the House of Representatives today seeking legislation that might add to the immediate cost of a bottle of beer.
The petition was presented by the Minister of Internal. Affairs (Mr S. W. Smith) on behalf of the Kaitaia and District Progressive Society. The petition, signed by 11,460 persons, deals with the “rapidly increasing” number of accidents caused by broken glass on roads, beaches and other public places. The petitioners seek legislation to help lessen the nuisance by requiring the owners of beer bottles or the vendors of beer to impose a “heavy returnable deposit” on the bottles.
Much of the broken glass found in public places came from beer battles, says the petition. The only legislation dealing with this question is a section in the Police Offences Act under which persons can be fined if they throw glass and other rubbish in a public place. 71115 section of the Police Offences Act was not specially enacted for the purpose of dealing with the broken beer bottle menace which is so prevalent today, ’ the petitioners add.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28302, 13 June 1957, Page 14
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