SANER MOTOR-CYCLING
Sir, —One must sympathise with “Open Slather” and all others whose rest and peace is disturbed, and safety endangered, by motorcycle speed fiends. In this nerveracking machine age as much peace and quietness as can be secured is essential to health at all times, not only on Sunday. All reasonable efforts should be made to this end. But “Open Slather’s” demonstration of a lunatic racing around on a motor cycle one Sunday when a traffic cop was unlucky to get killed is not so much a demonstration of the results of motor-cycling on Sunday as of the disastrousu result of combining drink with motorcycling, as generally reported. ' 'lt could have happened any day as easily as on Sunday. One remembers the cost of that incident as two lives, and another man injured. And we have those here who, in their heartlessness, are prepared to openly object when booze is taken more seriously than an innocent cause for “humour.” They should explain their attitude to the widow and fatherless children of the traffic officer concerned.
May I join “Open Slather” in asking: What are the religious bodies going to do about it, or the local authorities? Yours etc., COMMON SENSE.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 99, 22 September 1950, Page 5
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201SANER MOTOR-CYCLING Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 99, 22 September 1950, Page 5
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