THE CYCLE INDUSTRY.
The returns of the French cycle tax (4s) for 1900 show that there were last tea 1 ' 087,000 cycles. In 1894 only 2Cw,(3oy cycles paid the tax. The number of cycle ß in France increased every year by abou 70,000, and in 1898 there were 483,000 taxed cycles. The number went up with a bound to 839,000 in the year following, owing partly to stricter enforcement of flic law. There must bo now over a million cycles in France. In fact, the country is getting near the saturation point. One-fourth of this million of cycles belongs to Paris.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 12 November 1901, Page 3
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101THE CYCLE INDUSTRY. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 12 November 1901, Page 3
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