WAR ON MOTORISTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 June 1925, Page 7

WAR ON MOTORISTS

N.I. BOY’S CAMPAIGN. AUCKLAND, June 11. A certain boy residing at Rangiriri eanied the severe censure of the Council of the Auckland Automobile Assoc. i.itibn. A resident of the district, in a spirit of .solicitude for all niot-oiists, wrote at some length to describe a young man’s pastime of secretly depositing sharp and jagged objects on the main road in wa..t for passing motorcars. . ‘•A neighbour of mine, lie wrote, “while on his way to Papakura. on passing a point north of the Te Kattwhata junction with the main road, observed a. boy (whblh the writer named) retreating very hurriedly from the road to the gateway of his parents home, . .after depositing what appeared to be a harmless piece of paper on tiie wheel track of the road. To my neighbour's amazement, it proved to be -a small piece of wood, part of a fruit case, with no fewer than seven nails driven info it, the points set upwards, and the whole device concealed with paper. The result was a series of punc. fures. ' “This,” the writer continued, ‘ was precisely the point where Dr. S. Mar tin,. cf Ngaruawahia, recently had «

bid sp’ll. I am also given to understand that the same boy encourages other boys attending the Rangiiii’i School to place broken bottles on the road, from where broken glass lias on more than one occasion been removed late’y. I believe a strongly.worded note from your Association to, the lad’s father, and also one Io th? school-mis-tress, would have a beneficial effect. The writer suggested adding ihat theie were six witnesses of the incidents referred to. “The irony oi the thing, he concluded, “is the fact that this

bov lias boasted of having collected no' less than £l5 from sales of grapes to pastin'’ motorists. Possibly he may ha contemplating, starting a vulcanising, shon dnrm.' the off season of ''fines.” (Laughter). Members agiedd. that the ease was one in which immediate art-on might -rove ‘-■ilvlary,- and it "as decided o forward the writer’s iufonnatim ta the schooj