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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20489, 7 March 1932, Page 7

"Many people are so frightened of inflation that if their bicycle tyre burst thev would be afraid to blow it up again," said Mr L. C. Walker, speaking to the For New Zealand Society, on Saturday evening. "I do not like riding on a flat tyre, but that is'what the country has been doing for some time." A mild offence which he had committed in his youth was recalled by Mr A. M. Mowleni, S.M., in impressing on a defendant in the Napier Police Court the fact that the action for which he was appearing could in no way be excused: The defendant, .charged with not having a heavy traffic license exposed on his lorry, ciaimed that he was new to the business, and did not know that such a regulation had to be complied l with. "That is no reason why you sliould plead not guilty," the Magistrate pointed out. "When I was much younger than I am now, I once appeared before a Magistrate for riding a bicycle on the footpath." "Oh, yes. But you may have done it deliberately," replied the defendant, amid laughter. "Certainly. Mine was a commission, but yours is an omission, which is just as much an ■ offence,'' said. Mr. Mowlein.