Crime On The Roads
Sir, —In the House on Thursday, Mr McAlpine explained: “It was happening all over the world, not just in New Zealand”; sickening, not remedial words, only restora-
tive for motorists’ doubts about themselves. Infant mortality in the Western world was appalling at the beginning of the century. New Zealand turned up Sir Truby King. Overseas families starved on the dole in the thirties. New Zealand came up with relief work on a living wage, and Social Security was another first. Why not something now? Farfetched, but how about large registration numbers painted on the roofs of cars and truck cabs, with helicopter police? Honest drivers need not risk their necks looking out for them. Dishonest risk necks anyway. And, oh one Sunday a year ban all motor traffic, except ambulances, police, doctors, and a special taxi-service for emergencies only. Such a pause would be healthy for the motoring mind in many ways.—Yours etc., PEGASUS. July 18, 1965.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30809, 22 July 1965, Page 16
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