CYCLES WITHOUT LIGHTS
3 MANAWATU "EPIDEMIC" ]* - ' . 5 Recent fatalities to cyclists riding at Slight without lights on country roads •-ttffere referred to at the last meeting Ipf the Manawatu County Council. V The traffic inspector reported that -owing; to the depression and the large of unemployed men about he t'fcad allowed a little latitude, but the Situation had got into such a state that rfcoth police and traffic inspectors had '•decided to take prompt and effective action until the trouble was remedied. ' ETherei had been quite an "epidemic of 'cycling at night without lights and reijbent accidents had forced the hands of ?,tho inspectors. •' "It is a long way overdue," comthe chairman, Mr. W. E. Barker, who added that the matter of stock scm the roads at night should also bo 'looked into.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22142, 22 June 1935, Page 16
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