CHILDREN AND TRAFFIC LAWS
Sir,—l agree that children should be fined for offences against the traffic laws. The insignificant paragraph reporting the remarks of Miss Allum (a New Plymouth headmistress) should have been given headlines. Her sarcasm regarding traffic officers talking “sweet nothing” while pretending to enlighten the children was one of the brightest things that I have read for some time. The hair-raising performances of Christchurch children, while on their bicycles, would defy Hollywood’s talent for exaggeration. From toddlers to teen-agers and beyond our young folk are just a pack of “Ned Kellys.” The fact that they break every rule in the book, endanger their own lives and those of other people, seems to disturb no-one in this, the city of bicycles.—Yours, etc., GOING AROUND IN CIRCLES. November 5, 1954.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27502, 9 November 1954, Page 17
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