BICYCLES AS A NECESSITY.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16227, 24 March 1917, Page 13

BICYCLES AS A NECESSITY.

Many years ago when this Bicycle wad becoming a popular means, of locomotion the writer well remembers listening to a sermon in the" course of which cycle riding on Sundays was denounced as a wicked sacrifice and in every way a tresspass on the sanctity of tho Sabbath. Further one can recollect the time- \vhon- the members of the aimed Constabulary were forbidden to ride a cycle when in uniform ; the same rpplied to police officers. However .things have changed. We nosv, discover that the cycle has wormed its way into our social system Lo such a degree that ; find the push bike an absolute necessity.

The telegraph messengers are obligedto use them in their work; the police find they cannot get along without rem._ Ministers Preachers and Church Officials would otherwise only get through,'one quarter of' their work. Men who are employed . on the water fionts find they cannot possibly do their work end get their meals unless they have a Cycle.

We now come "to_ the country worker 1 - and those away in the back-blocks. Farmers do not allow their employees to keep hacks, so the Cycle again fills the necessity.

Workers on the Rail-nay are stipolied with a trolley as a means of locomotion, but th"*. County Council and. Road Board workers are compelled' to resort i,o the Cycle. Parenis will recollect the demands of their children for a Cycle for going to p.nd from school. Business rr-en would wonder what was wrong if their messengers were minus a Bicycle. One could give' thousands of further instances" this is to show that Wood's recognise the requirements of all,these riders and- keep 'a full stock of Hicycles, accessories and repair materials so that no Cyclist need he stuck up. After 23 years continuous business in Timaru you if ay he sure Wood's Cycle Depot knows how' to cater for their particular trode. The finest nnd cheapest rsmge of Cycle Tyres in Timaru is at Wood's. ...