Pests Who Need Control

NZ Truth, Issue 1212, 21 February 1929, Page 6

Pests Who Need Control

THERE are all sorts of restrict-' tions and penalties for the motorist who offends against the ■multiplicity of regulations and by-laws, but m keeping the motorists m order the motor cyclist seems to have been largely over-looked by the authorities who frame our laws— both. National and Municipal. y Mr. A.M., Mowlem, S.M., has put into words what everybody jinpre or less feels on the subject. When dealing with, a motor cyclist offender recently at Hastings Mr. Mowlem had the following to say about the breed m general: ""Why you young fellows make up your minds to sit on a clattering piece of machinery you call a motor cycle, is, beyond me. 1 suppose I'll have someone writing to the papers and saying; that the local magistrate is unfair to .motor cyclists for saying this, but I'm going to tell you that I 'ye seen some motor cycles and I've heard some. Some of them I have heard with difficulty, for some of them do go quietly, but I think most people will be m agreement with me when I say that the desire of the average motor cyclist is to kick up as much noise as he possibly can do. "They don't think of. the people lying m bed at night or people lying m bed sick, and let ( me tell' you that 1 these kind of men are not all m Napier and Hastings. Why,' m ' Masterton there was a lady who had a hospital on the main road, but she had to get out , of it. Her patients demanded quiet, and they couldn't get ; it, but . what did these noisy motor cyclists care? Nothing! ■ They ( just streaked through? tire street as usual. Let me say that to my mind, the noisy motor cyclist is the most selfish individual I have yet met, and that's candid." And "N.Z. Truth" agrees with Mr. Mowlem.