LOSS OF 156 LIVES
MOTORING FATALITIES FAVOURABLE COMPARISON PETROL CONSUMPTION UP (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Hopes that the record of motoring fatalities for the current year would compare more than favourably With the figures for the previous 12 months have been lowered by the events of the week-end. According to a statement made by the Commissioner of Transport, Mr. G. L. Laurenson, the serious accident to the military lorry north ot Taihape on Saturday night, and the fatal ac: - dent in Wellington involving the death of a child, brought the total number of deaths since April 1 to 156. "For the corresponding period of the previous year the total was 148, but, in view of the fact that so far this year there has been an increase of 9 per cent, in the petrol consumption figures, until the week-end it compared favourably with the previous, year's rpcord."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19793, 22 November 1938, Page 16
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149LOSS OF 156 LIVES Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19793, 22 November 1938, Page 16
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