FAULT OF MEN
GROWING TOLL OF THE MOTOR Bd rpipmanh h»psf Association WELLINGTON. September 2. “Men are not entitled to get drunk and get into a car, and they are not going to do it; up they go sky high,” said the Hon. R. Semple, Minister of Transport, during a speech at a social function. “The most sacred thing on this earth is human life,” he continued. “My first duty as Minister of Transport Is to save human life. I am going to use the surgeon’s knife on the transport system of this country. I am amazed at the number of people slain by motor cars. In the last seven weeks, we have killed in New Zealand 53 people, and maimed hundreds—needlessly slain, due entirely to Rafferty’s rules, no control, no proper method of organising our transport. It’s not the fault of the motor car; it’s the fault of men.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20513, 3 September 1936, Page 6
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150FAULT OF MEN Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20513, 3 September 1936, Page 6
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