CORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 August 1921, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

SETTLER AND MOTORIST. (To the Editor.) Sir, —Your local concerning the motor cyclist and the settler is a fair sample ot one tale being good until the other is told. This is the settler's side of the story: He ■was driving along the suburban road mentioned, to his farm, and was on the proper side of the road. A motor cyclist was approaching, and, with that entire disregard for the rights of others so characteristic of many motorists, and most motor cyclists, was taking up so much of the road that the settler called to him to keep out, at the same time waving his whip handle, to indicate the nature of his request. The handle struck the cyclist quite accidentally, and the latter stopped. The settler drove to his farm near at hand, and had just alighted when the cyclist came up, and in vigorous language, said what he would do if the settler were only younger. The latter (a boxer of some local note in his /days), waived the question of ago, and, despite his sixty years, in the brief encounter that followed easily outclassed his opponent. The cyclist, finding that he had bitten off more than he could chew, called for an armistice, shook hands with the settler, and then went off to get the police to listen to his tale of woe.—l am, etc., OBSERVER.