RIDING ON FOOTPATHS.
(To the Editor.)
Sir, —Kindly allow me, through the medium of your paper, to draw attention to two practices which are very prevalent at present among the older schoolboys in Te Kuiti. I refer to the pernicious habit of riding bicycles on the footpath and also the horseplay indulged in while riding on the road. The former practice constitutes a distinct danger to pedestrians, while the latter creates a source of unnecessary anxiety and nei’ve strain to motorists. As evidence of the prevalence of this misuse of the footpaths by cyclists, only yesterday a boy eight years of age was knocked down while returning from school, receiving a severe scalp wound, which necessitated his being detained at home.
Such practices should not be tolerated, and it merely requires one or two prosecutions for damages to bring home to offenders the seriousness of this breach of the by-laws. Trusting some action will be taken by the authorities to have this sort of thing stopped.—l am, etc., OBSERVANT.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 3278, 12 March 1931, Page 5
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