BICYCLES AS A NECESSITY.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16229, 27 March 1917, Page 11

BICYCLES AS A NECESSITY.

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

Tlie telegraph messengers are obliged to use them in their work; the police find they cannot get alopg without rem.. .Ministers Preachers and Church Officials would otherwise only get through one quarter of their work. Men who are employed on the water fi onts . find they cannot possibly do their work el get their meals unless they have a Cycle. We now come to the country worker and. (hose 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 supplied with a trolley as a means of locomotion, but 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 gssing to Knd from school. Business ir en would wonder what was wrong if their messengers were minus a Bicycle. One could give thousands of further instances but this is to show that Wood's recognise the requirements of all these riders and keep a full stock of Bicycles, accessories and repair materials so that no Cyclist need lie stuck up. After 23 years continuous business in Tim am you may be sure Wood's Cycle Depot knows how to cater for their particular trade. Tlie finest and cheapest range of Cycle Tyres in Timaru is at Wood's. ...