ROAD ACCIDENTS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 139, 16 June 1930, Page 11

ROAD ACCIDENTS

CONFERENCE TO-MORROW

The causes of the alarming increase in motor accidents in New Zealand, and ways and means of preventing such mishaps, will be discussed at a representative conference of interested bodies and Government Departments, to be keld at the Transport Department's offices to-morrow. The Commissioner of Transport (Mr. J. S. Hunter) will preside, and the proceedings will be formally opened by the ex-Minister of Transport (the Hon. W. A. Veitch), who was instrumental in calling the conference. Eepreseutation will be as follow: — Municipal Association of New Zealand, Mr. E. P. Norman (Town Clerk, Wellington); New Zealand Counties' Association,- Mr. G. . Megiunes (clerk, Paparua County Council); New Zealand Master Carriers Association, Mr. A. J. Curtis; North Island Motor Union, Messrs. L. A. Edwards and A. J. Toogood; South' .-'lsland '»Motor Union, Messrs. P. B. Harman and J. S. Hawkes; Main Highways Board and Public Works Department, Mr. Tyndall; Third Party Motor Insurance Pool, Mr. R. Caughley; North Island Motor Union Mutual Insurance, Messrs. I. V. Wilson and C. E. C. Robieson; service car proprietors, Mr. J. C. Gallagher; Railway Department, Mr. H. ■ 11. Sterling (general manager); Public ,Health Depart-* ment, Dr. Watt; Government Statistician's Office, Mr. Malcolm Eraser; Justice Department, Mr. Ward; Education Department, Mr. Benge; and the State Accident Insurance Department, Mr. C. B. Bedward. There will also be representatives,off-'the Police and Transport Departments; « ■