Traffic safety and children

Date: 1955 - 1965

From: New Zealand Road Safety Council :Road safety. Your problem. To the householder. Published by McGregor Advertising and Publicity, Christchurch. 1955-1965?]

By: Luscombe, active 1960?

Reference: Eph-C-SAFETY-Road-1960-01-2

Description: A board game distributed free by post, in order to teach the principles of road safety. This side is a road safety board game of 79 squares, to be played with dice. The game is surrounded by advertising for local Christchurch retail stores. Extended Title - From its "Road safety. Your problem" [1955-1965]. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset lithograph, on light card, 312 x 512 mm.

Date: 9 Jun 1995

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Burford, Melanie Jayne, 1970-

Reference: EP/1995/1755-F

Description: Constable Paul Woollett at a Crime Expo in Lower Hutt, Wellington, demonstrating to St Bernard's College students what a car crash is like while wearing a seatbelt. Photographs taken 9 June 1995 by Evening Post staff photographer Melanie Burford. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) strips with 2 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler negative, 35mm

Date: [ca 28 Jun 1984]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1984/3086-F

Description: Children in car seats that were donated to the Plunket Society by James Smith's Ltd. Photographs taken circa 28 June 1984 by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer, probably in the Wellington region. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: [ca 2 Feb 1990]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Nicholson, John, active 1997

Reference: EP/1990/0432-F

Description: New school patrol system being tested by Kelburn Normal student Pascal Saker, circa 2 February 1990, Wellington. Shows him using a newly designed school patrol sign, on a pedestrian crossing on Kelburn Parade. Photographs taken by Evening Post staff photographer John Nicholson. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1960 - 1963

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to road safety, driving and transport]

By: Timaru herald (Newspaper); Chalmers, Jocelyn Margaret, 1951-

Reference: Eph-B-SAFETY-Road-1962-01

Description: A dice board game issued by Gore businessmen, wherein one advances through 48 squares. Some of the squares show safety advice, and some are simply advertisements for local businesses. The cover also shows some road safety rules about biking to school. The back cover shows an advertisement for Sanitarium Health Foods. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, on card 295 x 437 mm, folded to 295 x 219 mm.

Date: [ca 17 Sep 1993]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Reid, Philip John, 1954-

Reference: EP/1993/3269-F

Description: Shanan Harris, aged 13, in Wellington Hospital, Newtown, after a bicycle accident in Paraparaumu. He holds his helmet. Photographs taken circa 17 September 1993 by Evening Post staff photographer Phil Reid. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) strips with 3 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler negative, 35mm

Date: 1979

Reference: Eph-C-SAFETY-Road-1979-01

Description: Photograph shows a young boy wearing a seat belt, but not in a child's car seat. He is buckling a stuffed panda, at least his own size, into the seat alongside him. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset lithograph, 470 x 362 mm

Date: 1947

From: Rountree, Harry, 1878-1950: [Ephemera and posters accessioned 2019]

By: Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents

Reference: Eph-C-GRAPHIC-ARTS-Rountree-02

Description: British road safety poster shows an illustration of a dog dressed up as a policeman, carrying a small rabbit with a plaster on its head towards the hospital. The small rabbit has been involved in an accident, and eight other rabbits crowd after the policemen, some weeping. In the background, another policeman takes down particulars from a squirrel, the van driver involved in the accident. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, , 250 x 382 mm.

Date: 1950-2000

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: PAColl-7327-1-056

Description: Photographs relating to education, taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1950 and 2000. Includes photographs related to Kelburn Visual Resource Centre, Wellington. Images relating to education are arranged alphabetically from EXC to ST Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.

Date: 1945 - 1947

By: Taylor, Ernest Mervyn, 1906-1964; C M Banks Ltd; Gordon, Peter, active 1978

Reference: Eph-C-SAFETY-Road-03

Description: Shows five rabbits wearing school bags, and causing havoc by walking too close to oncoming truck, on a rural road. Ernest Mervyn Taylor was art editor and illustrator for the School Publications Branch of the Department of Education from 1944 to 1946. The annual report of the Transport Department for 1947 (Appendices to the journals of the House of Representatives 1947, H40) states that "in order to help to impress the smaller children of the primary schools with the need for care in crossing the road, appropriate posters [some] depicting animals were distributed to the schools and used as a basis of instruction by the teachers". Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - emt Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset lithograph, 255 x 377 mm.

Date: 1945 - 1947

By: Taylor, Ernest Mervyn, 1906-1964; C M Banks Ltd; Gordon, Peter, active 1978

Reference: Eph-C-SAFETY-Road-05

Description: Shows six school children at right foreground, waiting to cross country road, after New Zealand Education Department school bus exits stage left. Ernest Mervyn Taylor was art editor and illustrator for the School Publications Branch of the Department of Education from 1944 to 1946. The annual report of the Transport Department for 1947 (Appendices to the journals of the House of Representatives 1947, H40) states that "in order to help to impress the smaller children of the primary schools with the need for care in crossing the road, appropriate posters [some] depicting animals were distributed to the schools and used as a basis of instruction by the teachers". Other Titles - Poster Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - emt Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Print, 255 x 377 mm.

Date: 1955 - 1965

From: New Zealand Road Safety Council :Road safety. Your problem. To the householder. Published by McGregor Advertising and Publicity, Christchurch. 1955-1965?]

Reference: Eph-C-SAFETY-Road-1960-01-1

Description: A board game distributed free by post, in order to teach the principles of road safety. This side shows rules for children travelling to school on foot or by bicycle: Stop for school patrol; walk on the right hand side where you can see and be seen; cycle in single file; when turning signal clearly and in good time. Another 10 safety rules for car drivers are also listed. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset lithograph, on light card, 312 x 512 mm.

Date: 1945 - 1947

By: Taylor, Ernest Mervyn, 1906-1964; C M Banks Ltd; Gordon, Peter, active 1978

Reference: Eph-C-SAFETY-Road-07

Description: Shows children obeying this dictum. Ernest Mervyn Taylor was art editor and illustrator for the School Publications Branch of the Department of Education from 1944 to 1946. The annual report of the Transport Department for 1947 (Appendices to the journals of the House of Representatives 1947, H40) states that "in order to help to impress the smaller children of the primary schools with the need for care in crossing the road, appropriate posters [some] depicting animals were distributed to the schools and used as a basis of instruction by the teachers". Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - emt Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset lithograph, 255 x 377 mm.

Date: 1945 - 1947

By: Taylor, Ernest Mervyn, 1906-1964; C M Banks Ltd; Gordon, Peter, active 1978

Reference: Eph-C-SAFETY-Road-04

Description: Shows rabbit wearing school bag, hurriedly crossing busy road outside school, to the consternation of passerby. Ernest Mervyn Taylor was art editor and illustrator for the School Publications Branch of the Department of Education from 1944 to 1946. The annual report of the Transport Department for 1947 (Appendices to the journals of the House of Representatives 1947, H40) states that "in order to help to impress the smaller children of the primary schools with the need for care in crossing the road, appropriate posters [some] depicting animals were distributed to the schools and used as a basis of instruction by teachers". Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - emt Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Print, 255 x 377 mm.

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Weigel, William George, 1890-1980

Reference: PAColl-8983-70

Description: Road safety training for school boys, circa 1950s-1960s. Shows boys, and a traffic officer, grouped around a model of streets and traffic. Identity of boys and officers unknown. Location also unknown, possibly Christchurch region. Photograph taken by George Weigel of Christchurch. Publication note - Published in New Zealand Free Lance, but date of publication unknown. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Date estimated by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 16.2 x 20.7 cm

Date: 1958-1959

From: Moor, Christopher Clement, fl 1970-2003 : Papers relating to research projects

Reference: MS-Papers-7652-3

Description: Files of material on a road safety project, Shell Traffic Trainers, which include correspondence and photocopies of news items from periodicals and newspapers etc Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1939-1940

From: Normandale Progressive Association : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1272-01

Description: Correspondence, mainly with MP's re closing of Normandale crossing Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1945 - 1955

By: New Zealand. Transport Department

Reference: Eph-C-SAFETY-Road-02

Description: Shows group of seven children playing in sand pit and building with boxes. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Transport Department R.E. Owen, Government Printer, Wellington. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 508 x 381 mm.

Date: 1992-1994

From: Maori Women's Welfare League : Records

Reference: 95-232-9/6

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1955 - 1965

By: New Zealand Road Safety Council; McGregor Advertising and Publicity (Firm)

Reference: Eph-C-SAFETY-Road-1960-01

Description: A board game distributed free by post, in order to teach the principles of road safety. One side shows rules for children travelling to school on foot or by bicycle: Stop for school patrol; walk on the right hand side where you can see and be seen; cycle in single file; when turning signal clearly and in good time. Another 10 safety rules for car drivers are also listed. The other side is a road safety board game of 79 squares, to be played with dice. The game is surrounded by advertising for local Christchurch retail stores. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset lithograph, on both sides of light card, 312 x 512 mm.