RECKLESS DRIVING.

Hastings Standard, Issue 37, 9 June 1896, Page 3

RECKLESS DRIVING.

[To the Editor.j

Sin,- —During the last month or so several of the men-kind in and around Hastings have got rounded up for driving without lights and otherwise breaking the borough bye-laws. Now, as the women-kind claim to have the same rights and privileges as the men, it is only fair and reasonable that they should be also kept within the limits of the law. There are one or two ladies in this town who have quite recently taken to driving, ahd one of them has already got quite notorious from the reckless and unskilful manner she steers her chariot. This fair jeliti is evidently no judge of pace, as she never knows when her unfortunate moke is going " at top," as her whip is always otrt. This lady is also very ignorant of the rights of the road, as she invariably charges full tilt at any trap (bar a dray) that she meets on the road, and a serious accident lias on several occasions been barely averted. If the " hubby " of this amateur charioteer does not want to be mulcted in heavy damages he will take the hint and give his better-half " the office " to take her outings on the Maraekakaho plains, where she will have plenty of sea room and where, she can give the moke taffy, and get him up to eoncert pitch without anyone seeing her. —I am, tvc., Splashboard.