Safety of Tawa Flat Children
Sir, —Please permit me to say a few words concerning safety of school children on a main road. I noticed with regret that the Makara County Council evades responsibility concerning children travelling from the northern end of Tawa Flat. It resolved to ask the schoolmaster to educate the children to keep well to the edge of the bitumen. Children will be children, and if there is no boundary, such as the edge of a footpath, how can one expect them to wrangle, argue, etc., without forgetting, and overlapping the bitumen? I do know, that from a motorist’s point of view, the road in question is an abomination between 8 and 9 a.m. and 3 and 4 p.m., as one has to completely stop at times when another car happens to be coming from the opposite direction. One cannot grudge these children (especially five-year-olds), an equal right to the bitumen, especially on wet, wintry mornings, as their feet must be fairly wet when they arrive at school with the distance they walk alone.—l am, etc., A MOTORIST. Wellington, March 19.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 150, 20 March 1936, Page 13
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