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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 85, 9 January 1928, Page 15

The mentality of the bicycle thief passes comprehension (remarks the ‘‘Southland Times”). Taking a stroll recently along a little-used path in Thomson's Bush, an Invercargill resident caught a glint of metal in some shick undergrowth. Investigation revealed a bicycle, which had apparently been lying there for several weeks, so that although evidently nearly new when left there, it was badly rusted. On the find being reported to the police, the owner was speedily found, but the question is, what was the thief’s object in leaving it there.

Although, perhaps, it may not generally be realised, the small cost involved in travelling by motor-car is making a considerable change in the methods of tourists. This at least was the complaint of a wel-known Napier hotelkeeper in conversation with a "Daily Telegraph” reporter the other morning. Ho stated that in the old days before the advent of the present popularity of the motor-car, visitors to Napier often stayed for weeks at a time, but almost without exception now the longest stay was about three days. The balance was made up, however, by the increased number of visitors due to motoring facilities.