• •We were aking the names of so many of them that we did not have anv "time to listen to excuses,” said a constable at the Christchurch Magistrate's Court. when asked if a youth charged with cycling at night without a light, had offered any excuse. Sixtythroe defendants who lmd cycled at night without lights on their machines were charged with the offence. Many interesting excuses were offered, the most usual explanation being delay at work through Hoods, breakdown of machinerv. rush of business, and other exceptional causes. One youth, eighteen years of age. who said lie was still attending school, gave as his explanation that although he had a lamp he did not light it because he was conserving’his supply of two matches. ‘ I don’t smoke, and so I don’t carry many matches with me,” he said.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1923, Page 3
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148Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1923, Page 3
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