NOISY MOTOR CYCLES.

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23025, 16 August 1949, Page 4

NOISY MOTOR CYCLES.

Sir. —I beg to differ with “Two of the Purged” in their stateemnt regarding motor-cycles. There is one machine only, a recent arrival, that fulfils this necessary requirement; ns for the rest, some are merely noisier than others. Regarding enforcing the regulations, things have come to a pretty pass if a certain area has to be watched all hours of the night to deal with offenders. In our local inspector the motorcyclist, if he only knew it, has a friend whose policy is “educate, not prosecute,” but whose efforts have been repulsed.

There are certain parts around Gisborne that could be known as “acceleration areas” where youth has its (ting during the midnight hours, secure in the knowledge that pursuit and identification are practically impossible. It is asking too much lor any one man to police these areas at times when the offences take place, for example. 12.30 a.m. to 2 a.m. on Sunday mornings. Our inspector is supposed to have n 40-hour week the same as the rest of us and is doing an unpleasant job ns well as is humanly possible. EX-MOTOR CYCLIST. on this subject is closed.—Ed.l