Cost of Third Alternative

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 28 May 1943, Page 4

Cost of Third Alternative

| For riding a cycle at night without a | light, Ronald M. Reader was ordered to pay 10s costs in the Magistrate’s ' Court this morning. Traffic Inspector L. R. Stringer prosecuted. The aefendj ant in a letter stated he had a genera- ! tor and lamp but the bulb was fused. ■ “I was faced with three alternatives,” he wrote. “I could have walked, hired i other transport, or ridden without a i light and risked detection. I chose the ! last alternative.” i Wairau Massacre Centenary ‘‘The consensus of opinion seems , to be that no good purpose would be | served by a public gathering on the 1 anniversary day of what has been called tile Wairau Massacre,” says a statement by a committee set up by the Methodist Church to consider the desirability of commemorating the centenary of the Wairau Massacre. “Time has to a large extent healed the wound and there is to-day a spirit of friendliness and conciliation existing between the two peoples. In fact j later historians have been ready to acknowledge that the fault did not lie I only with the Maori leaders.”