CORRESPONDENTS' VIEWS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 73, 27 March 1930, Page 10

CORRESPONDENTS' VIEWS

"One Wheel" protests against the suggestion that noisy motor-cyclists cannot be uaught. "This to my mind is weak and absolute nonsense. The thing could be put down in three months or less, it the powers that be would get to work, as they assuredly must before long. Fines are no use. There are other methods such as mentioned by one of your correspondents, •■'Bill Billiard," the confiscation of the machine or loss of licence. The din and blast of these machines is to the sufferius and aged a great trial, and if some drastic action is not soon taken pleasure will have gone from our roads." "Tinakori Koad, Park street," writes: — "I would ask Mr. R. A. Wright, M.P., who is wide awake and obliging, to give a public answer to the questions put by "Roseneath Resident" in your issue of 24th instant, and to the following further questions: ' (1) How many traffic inspectors are employed by the City Council? (2) AVhat other duties have they besides trapping offending motor-car and motor-bike drivers? At what hours do they begin and leave oft? (3) As to do trapping properly the inspectors should work on the "shift" system. I would ask do they? (4) What districts do they cover? (5) Have the police power and instructions to summons or report offending motor-cyclists? At present the police ignore, them. (6) Will Mr. Wright move for a bylaw making the removal of baffle-plates from the mufflers an offence with a stiff line? (7) How many convictions per month have been obtained since the present bylaw was made?"

"Deafened"writes: "Since my firstletter, written on behalf of the majority of sleep-denied and nerve-wracked fellow-citizens, helped to this discus-

si on, I would like to reply briefly to 'Gauntlet 1930,' who says, 'there arc technical difficulties in tho way of silencing a motor-cycle as efficiently as a car.' That may be so, but there can bo no technical difficulty in tho way of making them less noisy, less explosive, and less of a public nuisance. I have ridden various makes of motorbikes for,., possibly, as many years as 'Gauntlet' leads us to suppose he has lived, and I know of no necessity whatever for almost continuously blowing out through the exhaust, just, it seems, for tho purpose of, pure devilment. Motor-cyclists certainly have as much right to use tho roads as anyone else, at any time and all times, but they are expected to be as sporty if not so gentlemanly as to consider those to whom an undisturbed night's sleep means so much. To be considerate of the feelings of others is one of those attributes of a gentleman which youth and hoodlums arc too frequently not blessed with. But my point is that the bylaw says, 'shall not have use or affix a cutout.' I again ask why tho bylaw is not enforced in. its full intention."