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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 3 (July 2, 1928)

Safety First

page 52

Safety First

A Good Safety Advertisement.

The children shown in the illustration on this page (Maurice Scott, aged 11 years, and Joan Green, aged 4 years) did good work for the Safety First cause at a fancy dress ball held recently at Frankton Junction. Dressed in costumes made from some of the Department's graphic safety posters, the children, carrying a model engine (with electric headlight) led the Grand March and, we are pleased to add, won the first prize for the most original costume.

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Some Safety Hints.

In case of injury, however small, always get it attended to at once, and avoid blood poisoning. Seconds spent in attention may save weeks of suffering.

Send in any suggestions you may have for safety to the Secretary of the Safety Committee or to your foreman.

Be a safe worker. Make your motto: “I will always work safely, and not be the cause of injury to either my mates or myself.”

(From “Safety First,” London.)

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Believers in Safety First Maurice Scott and Joan Green of Frankton Junction.

Believers in Safety First
Maurice Scott and Joan Green of Frankton Junction.

Vigilance the Remedy.

The growing evil of the increasing number of accidents caused by motor vehicles and the seriousness of the position as affecting hospital accommodation and finance, is commented on by a writer in a recent issue of the “Lancet.”

Although essentially descriptive of conditions in England at the present time, the comments of the writer are not without point in relation to New Zealand and the necessity for continuous Safety propaganda:—

“The pressure upon hospital beds and hospital finances caused by the rapid increase in the number of motor car accidents has been growing in severity,” says the writer. “The enormous annual output of motor vehicles of all kinds, forbids the hope that the pressure has reached its peak, and we may therefore confidently expect that the difficulty will become still more acute. All over the country, hospitals, large and small, are embarrassed by the necessity of admitting casualties to already overcrowded wards and by the cost of treating patients who are often so seriously injured that their tenure of beds, sorely needed for local purposes, is prolonged.

“In many small hospitals, at the approach of the week-end, when the maiming is at its height, medical officers have to hasten the discharge of the local patients for whom the institution primarily exists, to be ready for injured motorists, mainly from a distance. To say that this is a grotesque state of things is to put the situation mildly.”

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Kipling Revised.
If you can drive through crowds and never falter,
And miss pedestrians by an inch or two;
If you can wear a smile that will not alter
When five-and ten-ton vans lurch out at you;
If you can see your wheels and mudguards crumpled,
And greet the man who did it with a grin:
You'll have no trouble driving in the City—
But you're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!