BICYCLES AS A NECESSITY.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16228, 26 March 1917, Page 11

BICYCLES AS A NECESSITY.

Many years ago when the Bioycle was becoming a popular means of locomotion the writer 'well remembers listening a sermon in the course of which cycle'riding on Sundays was denounced as a .wicked sacrifice and in every way a trespass on the sanctity of the Sabbath. Further one can recollect the time who.n . the members of the armed Constabulary were forbidden to ride a cycle when in uniform; the same applied to police, officers. However things have changed. We now discover that the cycle has wormed its way into our social system to such a degree that i find the push bike an absolute necessity.

The telegraph messengers are obliged io 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 fiorits find they cannot .possibly do their work smcl get their meals-unless they have a Cycle. We now come to the country worker 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 Railway are supnlied with, a trolley as a means of locomotion, Lrat" th>, County .'/Council, and. Road Board workers are compelled to-resort to the Cycle. Parents will recollect the demands of their children for' a Cycle for going to v.nd from school. Business n-en. would wonder what was wrong if their messengers were minus a Bicycle. One could give thousands of further instances hut this /is to show that "Wood's recognise t.he requirements of all these riders and keej> a full stock of Bicycles, accessories and repair materials so that no Cyclist need he stuck up. After 23 years continuous business- in Timaru you r.'ay he sure Wood's Cycle Depot knows how to cater for their pari titular trade. The finest and cheapest range of Cycle Tyres in Timaru .is at Wood's. ... • ' . .