LAZY YOUTHS.

Thames Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 17803, 31 January 1930, Page 6

LAZY YOUTHS.

SPOIL MOTOR CAR TYRE. The incapacity, or disinclination, of the modern youth for walking was exemplified in the Magistrate's Court, New Plymouth, on Thursday afternoon, and drew from Mr. R. W. Tate, S.M., some comment. The case before the court was one, in which a, group or young men become marooned on the roadside some five or six miles from New Plymouth when the motor car in which thgv were travelling broke down at an early hour on a Sunday morning, as they were returning from Stratford. Having, according to this account, an inadequate repair equipment they were unable to change the tyres on the car,' and so it was driven on a flat tyre. The tyre was cut to pieces and the wheel damaged beyond repair in the process, and as the car was a hired one, the owner sued the hirer for the amount of damage, and was successful in his suit. The Magistrate expressed surprise that the young men did not leave the car on the roadside with perhaps one of their number in charge of it for the rest of the night, and walk in to town, rather than take the course they' did. He put the question direct to one of the party, and received the reply that it.was much too far to walk, and they were too tired. "I wonder how you would get on, if you had to march for a dav with a pack on your back," queried Mr. Tate, and answered for the man by saying, "I expect you would find you could do it quite well."