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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1396, 6 March 1905, Page 2

A short time ago the Ohristohuroh £?f counoil of the League of wrote '.f to the Minister for Justice in reference .to the increase in tho number of bicycle thefts, and suggested that heavier penalties' should .be imposed, and the attention police drawn to the' matter. At the meet* ing of the council here on Wednesday night a letter was read from the Commissioner of Police, stating that the polioe were not at all neglectful. Of 219 bioyoles reported stolen.last year; he said 199 were recovered througli.the action of the polioe. At the present timfe 21 unclaimed bicycles were in the possession of the Christchurch police. He urged that greater care should be taken by cyclists themselves in tho way | of looking < their machines when leaving them unattended. \ ' / This is where the great tbp i Premfer comes in. lie never forgets, old ; friends ;*ho is tho samo tnr'l to (.ioem to- V- : day as he was when he wroei r or supplied them with sto rP^l<|fHe r .. ways been a big enough .i%fn \'o ; .v littlenesses whioh' - some /men ";showl who. have climbed to thß topybf the tidee.—Car tertou Leader. {