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World Conference On Road Safety Urged
Perth, September 4.- A world conference on road safety is to be proposed to the Commonwealth Transport Department following a Road Safety Council Convention here last week, attended by 30 delegates from all the States.
A report by the chairman, the Acting Director of Commonwealth Road Transport (Mr. T. G. Paterson) showed that Australia’s personal accident rate of killed and injured compared unfavourably with that of New Zealand and the United States.
It was decided that £10,000 should be allocated for road safety Press advertising and that the allocation for radio should be increased to £20,000.
The Queensland delegates recorded their dissent at the small amount spent in Press advertising in that State. Inadequate enforcement of traffic laws handicapped the campaign to educate motorists and pedestrians in road safety practices, it was stated.
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The Central Queensland Herald, 8 September 1949
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