A SERIOUS NUISANCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 May 1938, Page 6

A SERIOUS NUISANCE

COMPLAINTS ABOUT NOISY MOTOR CYCLES. FIELD DAY FOR INSPECTORS. Masterton traffic inspectors had a field day yesterday as the result of the visit to the town of a large party of motor cyclists who were attending the reliability trials held at Te Whiti. From a fairly early hour innumerable complaints were received about motor cycles, not equipped with efficient silencers, roaring through town. The nuisance was particularly disturbing to the congregation at one of the churches. One of the inspectors left the church to try to deal with the trouble and later in the day both. men visited Te Whiti. When interviewed upwards of twenty motor cyclists could not produce drivers’ licences and warrants of fitness. While the inspectors were at the trials, one motor cyclist came along with three others on his machien and at the same time a motorist arrived with last year’s number plates on his car.

Noisy motor cycles are bad enough at any time, but, as one resident remarked yesterday, “when it comes to roaring through town on a Sunday morning when people are at church, it is over the fence.” It is stated that the Masterton Motor Cycle Sports Club has made every endeavour to see that the members do not cause nuisances ,and that their machines meet with the requirements of the traffic regulations. It is clearly laid down in the Act that no person shalloperate a motor cycle without a silencer that is efficient and in proper working order. Very few of the visiting cyclists yesterday, it is stated, had proper silencers.