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Otago Witness, Issue 3870, 15 May 1928, Page 54

With the small boy of to-day the old pastime of “ whipping on behind” and securing a cheap ride is passing away, for it is not so easy to secure a lift on the back of a fast-travelling motor lorry as it was when the slow old cart and horse lorry were everywhere (says the Auckland Star). The juvenile cvclist often found that a tow uphill by a passing tram or motor eased his leg efforts, but traffic authorities soon quashed this practice. Now a novel means of quicker travel than by shanks’ pony is at times witnessed on our concrete roads. The proud possessor of a single roller skate attaches himself to the rider of a cycle, and the pair ekim along to school or on the usual errands under the impulse of one boypower.