AN INTOLERABLE NUISANCE

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 70, 24 March 1931, Page 8

AN INTOLERABLE NUISANCE

-(To the Editor.)

Sir,—l can heartily endorse the complaint of "Disturbed," 'in his letter in Friday's issue, headed "Internal Combustion -Pests." Complaints of this kind appear regularly in your columns, but nothing appears to move a pachydermatous City Council from its state of lethargy. Oriental Bay is now from dawn to midnight a veritable speedway for motorcycles, whose riders apparently, endeavour to emulate tho dirt-track competitors and turn the locality into a regular inferno. It is absolute nonsense to say that this craze for speeding with open exhausts cannot be controlled, and, further, if Magistrates would only inflict salutary penalties instead of the lenient fines now imposed this intolerable nuisance 'would speedily disappear. The writer had two refugees (ladies) from Napier, but the noise and din from cars and motor-cycles was more than they could stand after their earthquake experience, and they left within four houts of their arrival for a more peaceful locality. The position has now become so acute'that unless steps are not taken to minimise if not altogether remove this infliction, pedestrians and residents will have to take combined steps to protect themselves. I would humbly suggest to the City Council that they should send their traffic controlling officers to Palmerston North where the motor traffic generally is well controlled and could bo copied in Wellington.—l am, etc., PLAIN BILL.