NOISY MOTOR-CYCLES

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 113, 6 February 1937, Page 11

NOISY MOTOR-CYCLES

Oriental Bay Residents Complain ACTION BY AUTHORITIES For some months a large number of motor-cyclists and bicycle riders have made Oriental Bay a rendezvous at night, causing annoyance to residents. Every evening after dinner dozens of motor-cyclists, with or without pillionriders, have made a practice of congregating about the reserve and along the waterfront. Having assembled they indulged in high speed sprints along the promenade as far as the Orient Hotel and back again, usually with an open throttle, making a great noise, despite the fact that there have been cases of illness in some of the houses on the parade. Residents of the locality appealed to the authorities to have the nuisance stopped. Good work has been done in that direction by the police and traffic officers during the past week. A watch has been kept on the actions and reactions of the motor-cyclists, with the result that several of these speedsters have been caught racing round the parade with an open exhaust, bent evidently on the one thing—to burn up petrol in defiance of the speed regulations, and that law which says that no one shall commit a public nuisance. It seems that when the motor-cyclist applies for his licence and his machine is examined he has a silencer fitted on to his machine, as the by-law requires, but having passed the test, the silencers are often removed. These young men have been warned that should they repeat the offence action will be taken; also that they must not assemble as they have done in the past for the_purpose of enjoying themselves in a manner that is objectionable to others. Oriental Bay is a beautiful and peaceful promenade of a summer evening, but promenaders who are at all sensitive have been driven from the place by the nuisance created by the motor-cyclists, who whirl backward and forward in an aimless manner, only bent on showing off the paces of their machines. 4