Compulsory Registration Of Bicycles

Northern Advocate, 27 June 1939, Page 7

Compulsory Registration Of Bicycles

[Per Press Association. — Copyright .] CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.

Although the delegates to the quarterly meeting of the South Island Motor Union carried a resolution that red rear-lights should be carried on bicycles, they were told by Mr C. J. Talbot, member of the New Zealand Road Safety Council, that, the council had postponed any decision on this proposal until the registration of bicycles became compulsory. Mr Talbot also informed the meeting of a statement made by the Commissioner of Transport, Mr G. L. Laurenson, at a meeting of the council on March 30. Mr Laurenson said; “You will see from the reports before us that there were 997 collisions between motor vehicles and bicycles, 274 of these occurring at dusk or after dark. In only nine instances was the lack of a reflector. or the use of an inefficient one. reported as the cause of the accident. We looked through the statistics to | see if we could get some brief for : making it compulsory, but we could i not.”

The Admiralty has provided a cricket pitch, between the steel walls of the giant floating dock, for the 70 men manning it for the long tow from Ports’T.ouih to Alexandria. Three Dutcn tugs will do the towing, because no tugs in Britain are considered suitable for the task. The dock will be able to take in for repairs any ship in the Mediterranean Fleet.