ENGLISH HOLIDAY RUSH
FORMER YEARS EXCEEDED (Received April 10, 6.45 p.m.) British Wireless RUGBY, April !) All the British railway companies have made plans for the Easter holiday rush exceeding anything undertaken in past years. The services have been augmented. Crowded roads are providing the authorities with many problems, and in anticipation a special campaign for road Bafety was inaugurated last night by the Minister of Transport, Mr. L. Hore-Belisha. The Automobile Association is arranging for aeroplanes with trailing banners bearing safety slogans to be used in patrolling seaside resorts and other centres of attraction. The road accident figures for last week were 101 killed and 3532 injured. In the corresponding period last year 85 people were killed and 3185 injured. The figures for the whole of 1935 .show that 6502 people were killed and 221.726 injured," compared with 7343 killed and 231,603 injured in 1934.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22391, 11 April 1936, Page 11
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