SCHOOL CONVEYANCES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17409, 6 November 1930, Page 7

SCHOOL CONVEYANCES

PROTECTION OF CHILDREN AN INTERESTING PROPOSAL (Special to the Herald.) AUCKLAND, this day. The Auckland Education Board is anxious to minimise the risk of accidents happening to conveyances used to take country children to school. At its meeting yesterday it was decided to procure portable signs for school transport, so that motorists will be warned that vehicles are used for carrying children. The question was raised in a letter from the Whangarei Farmers’ Union suggesting that with a view to minimising the risk of accidents to school children all school buses should he equipped with a. distinguishing sign, both front and back, and that no motor vehicle should be permitted to pass school vehicles when children were either being picked up or set down. “It is a wise precaution,’’ said the chairman, Mr. Burns, “but it would be very difficult to enforce the suggestion. The question might be referred to the Education Department, with a view to it framing an Act in connection with the matter. “It was also decided to urge the department to frame regulations in connection with school transport, and to ask the Auckland Automobile Association to co-operate with the board in the matter.