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Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1935, Page 4

In the eight week's ended May 11, during which the 30 m.p.h. speed limit was in operation, 153 fewer persons were killed and 2699 fewer injured in road accidents than, in the corresponding weeks of last year, said Mr H o reBel ish a, British Minister of Transport, in a statement in the House oi Commons. These figures, he continued, represented reductions of 15.3 per cent in killed and 8.3 per cent in injured, in a period when the number of motor vehicles licensed increased by 220.000 or over 12 per cent. The reductions were mainly in metropolitan, city . f&td borough police areas, where the speed limit generally applied. Those areas accounted for over 75 per cent, of the reduction in deaths and over 90 per cent of the reduction in.injuured. The only recent weeks in which road casuaulties exceeded those of the corresponding weeks of 1934. he added, were those ended April 27 '(Easter week) and May 11 (jubilee week). Jn both these weeks the increases wore in the country areas, whereas in metropolitan, city and borough police areas, where the speed limit gdierally applied, 'there were reductions. The Minister’s statement was received with cheers by the House of Common*.