BICYCLES AS A NECESSITY.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16230, 28 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 the 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 whon tho members of the aimed Constabulary were forbidden to ride a cycle when in uniform; the sanio •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 find the push bike an absolute necessity. The telegraph messengers are obliged to 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 worjc. Men.who are employed on the water fronts find they cannot possibly do their work imd get their meals unless they have a Cycle. "Wo now come to-the country worker .nnd 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 supplied with a trolley as a means of locomotion, but ih-> County Council and Poad Board workers are compelled to resort to the Cycle. Parents will recollect the demands of their children for a Cycle for gsirig to i-.nd from school. Business r/-en would wonder what was wrong if their messengers were minus a Bicycle. One could give thousands of further instances hiit # 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 be stivk np. After 23 years continuous business in TimarVi you-.ii-ay be sure Wood's Cycle Denot knows how to cntpr for their particular trade. The finest and cheapest rfinge of Cycle Tyres in Timaru is at Wood's. ...