CYCLING AND POLICE

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1921, 2 November 1906, Page 3

CYCLING AND POLICE

(To the Editor Gisborne Times^) Sir, —Ait-ho-igii "Vs iui’s ” complaint that tho eye i t? ft-f not treated with a fa r amount v.-i co .- d i atioa i-pprara too ( tnfliny to mnis much a tention, thsio is uo doubt sh,.t it wou.d bo better for the town aa a whole if ’he pohea paid mere atto,tion to rim drunken man sa often seen tbo Ptrcet?, and l-si to those nnfor tuti’.so i-uhurb-ii! L'O'io’e.r.3, whom they term io ley in w-if " r. I have uo sytn* p ;.'nv w-th a cycl. , who rides vA hou« light®, ns »hia pr .et at it? both dangerous to tum-cli and tu pndaatii-iua, but I have much sympathy Lr the persen who liven on ’ha t;u -ktrt- of she town and who ia driven to ride up n the footpath because of the shockingly rough att.te of the suburban roads. Too police have no right to distinguish between ono ithgal aosion and another, and if they de3ire to profccuto ono class- of cibzsns then they should front other lawbreakers in iho eamc tu inner. It is quite as Uleg-d an action io wheel a perambohitor or gr cart upon tbe footpath a? to ride a bicycle upon is, and personally I have no olj-ctioa to either as lung a? due regard is paid to tho sftfcly and convenience of pedestrians, but I do Oijeci to the pci ce teking upon them* salves with tho cffio’onsncsn born of a “ iitt'e briof authority ” the right to digcriminfitr. If the cyoliiis ccmbincd ard laid an information against every person they saw y-hoeliog a peivimbuiator upon the footpath they would soon get the ladies on their side, and would cause euch [ a sinrm that this pariwoution would oanae. In tbe ir t ’rests cf the town and iis general health, pi oplo should bo encouraged to i live in tho outskirts, and thoso wba do , should be treated with a little more charity and consideration by their feilow-oiuzsns. —I am, eto,, 3 NOT A VICTIM, i Gisborne, October sQth, 1906,