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NZ Truth, Issue 125, 9 November 1907, Page 5

The cycle-motor fiend is sometimes brought to his bearings, but it is usually at the expense of death or disablement of a section of the community. This sort of toil is too heavy to pay for the luxury of havinr the infernal machine, and the authorities are herewith recommended to fall on the petrol-belching brute, and apprehend him on the smallest possible provocation. Quite recently m Wellington a number of people were alighting from a tram m Oambton-quay, at the foot of Charlotte-street, when a motorcyclist named Sutherland dashed up at the rate of 20 to 25 mil<^ an hour, and flattened out an uns"specting person named Taylor. Subsequent examination showed that the victim was still alive, and Sutherland escaped a charge of manslauchter m consequence, but the medical treatment of cost the motor person £10, and the bill was further by a f ne of 20s and costs m the -Magistrate's Court, for furious tiding;,,