THE REAL ROAD MENACE.
The motor-cyclist is a peculiarly English phenomenon. Nowhere else has youth so availed itself of this particular line of entry into its mechanical heritage. The lad with his first motor-bike, his girl perched temerariously on the pillion, is a sympathetic ligure, the knight-adventurer of our day. it were an abuse of authority for the greybeard in the far to banish his rattling wheels from the road. By their aid youth is taking seisin of the England whose rural beauty is Ids to enjoy. But the wild oats of modern travel must not be sown in the King’s highway. Of all motorists the motorcyclist needs ‘ road-sense ’ most; df all motorists he lias it least. . What requires to he realised is that bur roads are now social institutions, and as such cannot properly he used without conformity to a decent standard of democratic behaviour. This obligation rests upon all, not excluding pedestrians in our cities.—London “ Observer.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 June 1929, Page 7
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158THE REAL ROAD MENACE. Hokitika Guardian, 17 June 1929, Page 7
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