CORRESPONDENCE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5335, 27 January 1906, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

A COMPLAINT. LTo the Editor.] Sir, — I shall be obliged if you will allow me, through the medium of your valuable columns, to ventilate a matter on which I feel perhaps rather strongly. For home time past -I have been troubled by the performances of a number of our townspeople who seem to have become addicted to that cursed sport pedestrianism. Living quite in the country it is doubtless a hai mless and enjoyable pastime, but for peaceable townspeople to be threatened with instant death or horrible mutilation by persons who ' ' flash like meteors past " is, I submit, an insult to our up-to-date town. Twice recently I have, escaped only by leaving the footpath entirely in the possession of the invader. Worse, too, the fair sex .seem to have been struck with the craze. Men you can talk to, but when a lady knocks into you your duty is to smile and look pleasant. As a remedy, I would humbly suggest that a bye-law bo passed prohibiting walking within the town boundaries at a greater rate than three miles an hour and that the police be requested to keep an eye on likely offenders, — I am, etc., Disgusted.