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Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 152, 30 June 1922, Page 3

Modification of the bylaw prohibiting pillion-riding on motor-cycles was urged by a deputation which waited on the Finance and Legal Committee of the Auckland City Council on Tuesday. Mr. R. E. Champtaloup said he was a member of the deputation which waited' on the council three years ago, when the pillion-riding bylaw was first brought in, and it was on their recommendation that pillion riding was allowed on sidecar machines. Riding on solo machines was prohibited because of the supposed liability to accident. Since then no accidents bad occurred in areas where norestriction was imposed. The present deputation, representing 500 motorcyclists and speaking as experts, argued that there was no danger except through incompetent driving. They asked that pillion riding be allowed outside the main streets; or in one thoroughfare each, east and west of the city, leading to the country; or that pillion riding be permitted on Saturday afternoons, Sundays, and holidays. It was stated that the traffic authorities of Great Britain saw no reason why pillion riding should be prohibited, and prohibitory bylaws were being rescinded in most parts of England. It was also allowed in America and on the Continent. The committee (states the New Zealand Herald) gave the deputation a sympathetic hearing, and promised that the matter would receive careful consideration before final decision was reached.

A contribution amounting to £26 15s lid is to be made to the Wellington Free Kindergarten Association by the City Council on account of rates for the year 1921-22 being charged on certain of their property which, under the Rating Act, is exempt from payment of rates.

In Corsica, a girl has married her great uncle. She thus bacomoe her grandmother's sister-in-law, her own mother's aunt, her brothers and oistors' jjteat-aunt, »nd her own grand-niece.