HOLIDAY FATALITIES.

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXII, Issue 222, 29 December 1926, Page 3

HOLIDAY FATALITIES.

■TIMELY WARNING. A correspondent, in a letter to the “Manawatu Times,” draws timely attention to the many dangers to which children—as well as adults —are exposed to during the holidays. He issues a special warning against the injudicious bathing in rivers, the temperature of which this year must be well below previous years, owing to the lateness of the season. Parents and others should keep these dangers well in mind, and endeavour to ' minimise the usual sad holiday fatalities, by giving full and definite instructions to their children. “Our big midsummer holidays arc again about to commence. All the schools have been closed, and the children released for their six weeks’ holidays, during which time sports and pastimes will be one of the big orders of the day. There are many dangers to children during this period, motor cars and cycles being among them, and it behoves' all drivers and riders to be exceedingly careful. The increasing number of cars and cycles make it more difficult to avoid accidents, and in the interest of public safety the police should prosecute motor road-hogs. There are also the dangers which lurk in water. The double fatality which occurred recently ,whon two promising lads lost their lives in the’ Manawatxi River, and the one which occurred in the Rangitikei River, when a young man lost his life, should be sufficient examples. The danger- from cramp in these rivers at the present time is very great, owing to the fact that the bulk of the -water at the present time is melted, snow, and still retains sufficient of its icy-coldness to cause deadly cramp, with fatal results.”