SURF CLUB’S WORK.
VALUE STRESSED. Per Press Association. NEW PLYMOUTH, Nov. 28. Though the toll of deaths on the roads was enormous, many more lives were lost annually in therivers and sea in New Zealand, said the Minister of Public Works, Hon., R.' Semple, when opening the Opunake Surf Club’s new building at Opunake. How many people really appreciated the wonderful work done by New Zealand surf clubs, whose members risked their lives for the safety of the community? he asked. “If every person in the Dominion set out to do a similar job,” said “ Mr " Semple, “it would get. right back to the greatest message of the world, ' ‘I am my brother’s keeper.’” '• A comparison of figures for an average month in the swimming season was: Killed on the roads. 1931, 13.25; drowned, 25.20; 1932, 13 25, and 24.60; 1933, 10 and 25.40; 1934, 12.66 and 24.10. -' Surf clubs had saved 1/99 people from drowning in the Dominion. If road accidents continued at the present rate 2000 would be killed and 40,000 injured, and unless something were done even more would be drowned. The main purpose of the Minister s visit to Taranaki was to open a new bridge at Te Kiri to replace a structure washed away by a flood three years ago.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 1, 29 November 1937, Page 2
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