Five die on roads
(N.Z. Press Association) ‘ WELLINGTON, Mar. 31. Five people have been killed on the roads, since the Easter holiday season began Officially at 4 p.m. yesterday, the Ministry of Transport reported tonight. Twenty-one people died on the roads last Easter, 10 of them on Easter Saturday. The Ministry said that Easter Saturday was the main social and sporting day of the holiday week-end, and that vast crowds were expected at many sporting functions. < “Many of them will be i tired by the evening, and un-1 fortunately many of them I will have been drinking,” it < said. “The Ministry urges all who use the roads tomorrow i to drive defensively, to use 1 their seat belts and, if they 1 feel tired or have had a few < drinks, to stop their cars and < get off the roads." i
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32880, 1 April 1972, Page 1
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