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Road Safety’s New Aim
To “Save a Life a Day on the Queen’s highway” during the Royal tour year is the new aim of the Australian Road Safety Council.
Before a capacity attendance in the Brisbane City Hall the chairman of the Australian Road Safety Council (Mr T. G. Paterson) made an impassioned plea to all Australians to show their appreciation and enjoy life in a practical way by safer and more courteous behaviour on the roads.
“In this year of national rejoicing,” he said, “let all the Queen’s subjects who use her highways know that our Sovereign’s first concern is the welfare of her people, and that we could make her no better gift than the lives of at least 365 Australians who otherwise would be sacrificed in the senseless carnage of the roads.”
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Mr Paterson said that road accidents, like humanity’s other great problems, could not be