SAFETY OF THE ROADS
HIGHWAY CODE IN BRITAIN DISTRIBUTION OF COPIES (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 22. (Received July 23, at 5.5 p.m.) The Post Office started to-day on the enormous task of distributing to every house in Great Britain a copy of the "Highway Code,” containing a simple summary of rules for observance in the interests of road safety. The distribution of 15,000,000 copies of the code, which is expected to require five days for completion, is part of the intensive efforts of the Minister of Transport (Major L. Hore-Belisha) to reduce the number of road accidents, and other features of this week’s campaign are a, tour of a broadcasting van, the release of road safety propaganda, the display of 300,000 posters in’London. and a broadcast address at the end of the week by the Minister of Transport himself.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22631, 24 July 1935, Page 9
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