CITY BY-LAWS

Nelson Evening Mail, 18 October 1916, Page 7

CITY BY-LAWS

. . , (To the Editor.. J Sir, —"Can it lie possible that (here \rnot otic citizen oilier than myself, snih ■ ciently interested in the pasisng of so . ridiculous a by-law. affecting cyclists and motor cyclists, a* that inertion-cd in your issue of ;ho 7th ill s(.. as to express thei.? disappointment through the medium of your columns? lint possibly modesty prevents many from expressing their opinions publicly. who would be only too pleased to oppose such a measure, were a more private method open to them. To these and indeed to all who are interested; in tlie mattwr. may [ make a suggestion? I am going to write to the Council for Friday night's meeting, protesting against the passing of such a by-law as being -uncalled for, unecessary, arbitrary, and. ridiculous. Will everyone, not only a few, but everyone who may bo affected, write only a short pertinent- letter to the Council, expressing disapproval (as almost everybody ini the city is affected tli.-?re should be hundreds- of letters), or, before we know where we are, the. bylaw will be passed and confirmed, and' then—well ; you won't 'be able to raise your hat to your best gh'l, or take, your little one for a ride, to the Sands, you'll have to get off your bike to put your pipe in your pocket, or make a dive for the town boundary if your engine cylinder should- require some more oil, you'll have to blow your motor horn' with your teeth, and before mounting tie your hat on with a piece of string under your chin (you know the old-fashioned style), and motorists, when you want to change your gear, you'll have to get off and stop your engine, and when you start again, you'll be in the same .position, with your gear where it was, and have to go through the same performance again, with no further advantage, when \ you'll sudenly realise that your best plan will be to push your motor outside H the City boundary, where you will be a free man again; and shop-keepers, you who send your "message boy out on a bike with parcels, you'll have io develop? ut :| new- kind of dress for him with a commodious apartment in it something after the si vie of a kangaroo's pouch, or ! you will each and all of you surely encounter the limb' of the law. T am, etc., F. A. CARLISLE,