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Road Safety Display For Country Shows

Brisbane, Jan. 30. – A £1000 mobile road safety display will be exhibited at country shows this year.
Housed in two caravans, the exhibit includes a “nerve tester,” an electrically operated road quiz, and instructions on hand signals, driving, and the correct use of headlights.
It also carries 16 m.m. films and recordings.
The Secretary of the Queensland Road Safety Council (Mr. D. Downward) said today the display would be shown at Stanthorpe Show from February 6 to 8, at Warwick from March 12 to 14, and Toowoomba from March 22 to 27.
It was hoped to visit many other shows during the year.

Description source:
Queensland Times, 31 January 1952

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Road Safety Display For Show?

A feature of the Mackay show this year will be a special mobile road safety display.
This was revealed at the Mackay Divisional Committee meeting of the R.A.C.Q. last night.
The secretary (Mr. F. S. Williams) said the display would be housed in two caravans. They would occupy a space of about 40ft. by 8ft.

Latest devices
Though complete details were not to hand, it was thought the caravans would contain a miniature theatre and all the latest modern road safety devices.
Applications to the Mackay Show Society for space had already been made, Mr. Williams said. It was hoped to have the display in the motoring section.
It would be the first time the Road Safety Council had arranged a display at a Mackay show.
Similar features at other shows had been successful. It was expected to attract a great deal of interest among Mackay people, Mr.

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The image depicts safe driving in a traffic scene and is captioned “Right”.

Successful Road Safety Tests

Officials of the North Queensland Road Safety Council on Sunday night were pleased with the response to the road courtesy trial held in the morning.
A total of 39 young motor-cyclists competed in the trial, which covered a 16-mile course around the city, commencing and concluding at the Hermit Park State School.
Before the commencement of the trial, motor-cyclists were given a written examination, results of which will be released this week, following a meeting of the North Queensland Road Safety Council.
Main object of the trial, which was held by the council in conjunction with the Police Department, was to test the knowledge of motor-cyclists of the traffic regulations.
The route to be taken by competitors, which had been kept secret, was released just prior to the commencement of the trial.
Sixteen observers in

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Road Safety Show Was Popular

One of the most popular exhibits at the show yesterday was the Queensland Road Safety Council’s caravan.

A steady stream of people passed through the caravan all day examining the many visual illustrations stressing road safety.
Arranged at the request of the Mackay branch of the R.A.C.Q., the display was in charge of the secretary of the Queensland Road Safety Council (Mr. D. Downward).

Visual lesson
Mr. Downward said it was an attempt by visual means to make all classes of road users more conscious of road safety.
Along one wall of the caravan was a series of illuminated pictures illustrating the wrong way to behave on the road. The pressing of a button illuminated another picture demonstrating the correct procedure in each situation.
The nerve tester was another popular item in the display. Test of a steady hand was to move a brass pin down a

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Road Safety Council

The most vulnerable position in a private car, in the case of accident, is the kerb side of the front seat and the safest is the middle of the back seat, states the Queensland Road Safety Council, whose aim is to reduce the toll of the roads.
The statistics of Australia’s road toll are still frightening the Council says. In 71 per cent of all fatal accidents resulting from human failings, the road user killed was primarily responsible for his own death.
It is also estimated that the annual economic cost of road accidents amounts to £25,000,000. This sum would be sufficient to employ over 40,000 workers at the basic wage rate for one year.
Investigations have also shown that approximately half the fatal accidents occur on straight roads and in rural districts and also the fact

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Road Safety Council Exhibit

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With a view to trying to educate road users, the Queensland Road Safety Council has a display in Side-show Street. It covers the correct use of hand signals, proper alignment of headlights to be used on appropriate occasions, the rules of right-of-way and driving courtesy in various traffic situations. Illustrations explaining numerous traffic matters and films were shown explaining safety practices.
The exhibit is in charge of the secretary of the Road Safety Council (Mr. D. Downward). He said that the exercise of ordinary care and courtesy would have avoided the great majority of road accidents. The council’s campaign was intended to bring before the public notice the first essentials for ensuring road safety.
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Mr. Downward said that safety measures could never be over-emphasised. Whatever may be the hazards of modern transport they were not such that the present death toll could be taken

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1,200 Educated By Road Safety Display

The effectiveness of simple, graphic illustrations to educate the public in road safety rules was well demonstrated at the Australian Road Safety Council’s mobile display at the Show. In the two days it was open it is estimated 1200 people passed through the caravan.
One of the most forceful aspects of the display was a large panel with a series of traffic breaches each designated with a number. By pressing a button the viewer turned on a light in another panel which explained the breach.
A special section aimed at educating motor cyclists showed possible accidents against the background of a papier mache skull.
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The exhibit aimed at educating all sections of the public – motorists, cyclists, pedestrians and children.
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The push-button arrangement enabled the entire display to be run on a question-and-answer basis and is possibly the best system of education the Council

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Road Safety Slogan

Entries are still flowing in for the “Brisbane Telegraph” and Queensland Road Safety Council £125 contest.
The conditions are simple. All you have to do is send an original road safety slogan to the “Brisbane Telegraph,” 93 Queen Street in order to win the chance of gaining first prize of £50, second of £30, or third of £20.
Children, too, can participate by obtaining a competition picture from the photo sales counter of the “Brisbane Telegraph” and submitting a list of the road safety faults which the picture purposely embodies.
The total number of faults found must also be indicated on the entry, together with the entrant’s name, age, and address. Children of primary school age are eligible.
First prize in this section is £10, second is £3, and third is £2. In addition children may colour their entries if they wish for an additional bonus prize

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A.C.F. Protected Troops From Souvenir Sellers

By C. C. Faulkner
Back in February, 1940, the first Australians arrived in Palestine. Ten days later Col. R. S. Goward, the honorary Chief Commissioner of the Australian Comforts Fund, who was travelling with the troops, took over the modernised Fast Hotel in Jerusalem and turned it into a club and hostel.
The boys revelled in the hot and cold showers, for the Holy City abounds in flies and dirt. Some day a statistics addict will announce how many thousands of meals the boys enjoyed, the number of free bus rides between the encampments and the city.
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In Jerusalem the A.C.F. established barbers’ shops, set up jewellers and watch repairers. The boys did not have to argue about the charge; that had all been arranged in advance.
Track to Shower Rooms
At Alexandria the Comforts Fund took over the Atlantic Hotel. A nice thick carpet

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Australian Comforts Fund

Figures From The Middle East

Most recent figures from the Fund’s Commissioners in the Middle East indicate the extent of leave facilities provided for Australian troops during November at Australian Comforts Fund hostels and tea rooms. The Leave Clubs in Jerusalem, which include the Fast and Palatin Hotels and a pension for officers’ accommodation, provided 24,587 meals and 9,839 beds for men on leave.
At the Tea and Rest Room at Tel Aviv, where tea, cake and biscuits, lounge, writing paper and facilities and table games are available free, 9,338 men were served during November. The tea-huts which give similar free service on the surf beaches at Gaza, Hirbya, Al Jura and Nuseirat, are closed down during the rainy months. At the Metropole Hotel in Beirut, which was taken over by the A.C.F. as a hostel for troops on leave in Syria the day the

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