Riding on the Footpaths.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 777, 21 March 1905, Page 2

Riding on the Footpaths.

CYCLISTS FINED. As a warning to cyclists against riding on the footpaths, in contravention of the municipal bye-laws, two prosecutions came before Mr Hutchison. S.M.. at the Police Caurt on Monday.

Robert llond was proceeded agninsl for having on Feb. >x, ridden a bicycle on the footpath in Linrdet •Street. He ndinitlcd the charge,tout stated that he onlv rode on to the footpath for about half a do/en yards when appmachiog liis residence. Mr Kendall, the borough inspector, happened to be in an adjacent shop and saw hiini through the window.

Iho inspector gave evidence that the defendant had ridden a distance of nearly thirty yards on the footpath, without any apparent reason, us he could just as ensilv have continued on the roadwuv until he reached his residence, and cross;*! the footpath there.

Defendant did not admit going that distance on the footpath. Just ns he passed Nixon's thop he got off.

Sergeant Haddrell mentioned that the defendant hud been fined for a similar breach of the bye-laws on a previous occasion.

A nominal line of ss, with costs, was imposed.

K. !•'. Morshcad admitted having ridden a bicycle on the footpath in Standish Street on Frfy. 28. Ho •said he had never given it a thought that this «treel was inside the town boundary. On the axiom "In for a lamb, in for a sheep," as he remarked, he told the liench that he hud often ridden on the footpath there, when returning from the goif links. There was a hill at that spot. "The road." added the defendant, -'is inexpressibly vile, us are most of the roads for that matter." A line of ss, with costs, met the case.