A NOISY NUISANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 86, 13 April 1926, Page 5

A NOISY NUISANCE.

THE TIME-PAYMENT. CYCLE, j . I YOUTHFUL EXTRAVAGANCE. WANGANUI. this day. j Motor cycles can be obtained on such i c cheap term* in Wansantii that practic- r ally every "young blood' - possesses one. ; s whether on time payment or otherwise. j\ For some time past, numerous riders;! without proper silencers have ">epn doinz'c their be*: to mike ntjrht hideous, and so j i a>-utc has the nuisance become that the! ,\ train.' inspectors have launched aic campaign with the object oi mitigating tv or suppressing it altogether. i t A few weeks aeo. the first batch of i offenders came before the magistrate. ; Mr. -T. ?. Barton, who inflicted penalties » of 7-0 eacb. and promised to increase [ the fines if the nuisance were not abated. : Yesterday, a second squad toed the . mark, when two justices presided. One. . Mr. W. G. Bassett. commented strongly j' on the "'abominable noises"' which dis-j turned healthy people at night and : - which were a distressing menace to those ; f who were sick, and the fine* were, 1 promptly increased from 7 G to 40,. . Later in the afternoon, when deal.ng fi with a case ia which theft of benzine * was alleged, the magistrate. Mr. Barton, commented .upon the number oi r - similar cases which had come before him j during the past tow months, where; youths without any regard '.or their j future, involved themselves in heavy j . commitments for the purchase of motor ! cycles on time payment, never for a ' moment thinking that lltey might want a ' few pound* to draw upon ill case times . ! of adversity sot in.