Teaching Driving At Schools Urged

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30916, 24 November 1965, Page 26

Teaching Driving At Schools Urged

The need for teen-age driving instruction to be introduced into secondary schools as a part of their curricula should be impressed on the education authorities by the New Zealand Automobile Association, said a report from the roads, patrols and service committee of the Automobile Association (Canterbury) which was presented to a meeting of the association’s council.

The report recommended that the association urge the New Zealand Automobile Association to impress on the education authorities in conjunction with the traffic department the need for such a move.

The report said the general

manager (Mr E. S. Palliser) had said that even if the education authorities accepted the idea, he wondered who would meet the cost. It had been suggested that insurance companies stood to gain from an improvement in driving stand ards and that they might be willing to meet a portion of the cost. Mr T. D. Craig said he wondered if schools would agree to the inclusion of driving courses in curricula which were already heavily burdened. He thought motor assembly firms might be will-

Ing to give vehicles for giving instruction to secondary schoolchildren. Mr N. F. Greenslade said he had at first thought the association itself might have given the instruction but on reflection he had realised it could not hope to cope with the numbers.

He thought the association could give a lead and help those with the resources, and press the implementation of such a scheme as opportunity offered.

The council meeting adopted the report.