BICYCLES—A PUBLIC NUISANCE.

Waipa Post, Volume I, Issue 2, 21 April 1911, Page 3

BICYCLES—A PUBLIC NUISANCE.

THE EDITOR.)

i Sir,—l understand the town £ by-laws make provision for those who persist in using the public footpaths as a cycling track. These people little realise the danger they are repeatedly subjecting the public to, more especially as no respect is paid to speed and - sudden corners.Unless some restraint is placed uponlhese cyclists there must be an accident at an early Pate, and through your columns I would request that the authorities take such steps as will permit residents to use the public footparhs with a certain degree of safety.— I am, etc., Precaution.

(TO THE EDITOR.)

Sir,—l see by your" paper of the 18th inst. that a correspondent, signing himself 'Ratepayer,' asks what he terms an impertinent question. Now, Sir, I think it is just one of those questions that need asking. I, too, would like to,know what has become of the £2OO. In your report of the monthly meeting of the Town Board it is stated that Mr Greenslade, M.P., in a letter mentioned that this money had been voted to the Town Board for road work. How is it, then, that the Town Board didn't get this money? Who is responsible for this bungling ? Your correspondent also states that through a mistake this was placed to the credit of the Waipa County Council. If this is the case surely it would have been an easy matter for the Council to have had this money transferred to the Town Board. What I would like to know is, who was it that raised such strong objections to this being done? Where was the member of this riding ? The man in the street says there must have been some influence brought to bear in the matter. If so, who was it that used his influence, and who Was the one that was influenced ? These are matters that need

bringing to light, and if you succeed in giving the public some ■viittle information on the subject -'your paper will not be run in vain. I trust some of my questions are not too impertinet. In conclusion, I wish to offer you my hearty congratulations on the excellence of the first issue of the WAIPA POST. I trust it will meet with the support it deserves. —I arn, etc., PRO BONO PUBLICO.

TO THE EDITOR. Dear Mister Editer Just a wurcl or two frum Dinis about yer new paper which oi think is foin. IVs not quoite as good as the " Herald" yit, but there is more news about Te Awamuty. Oi say the Edication Boord is goin' to spind a hatful o' money in the rottin auld schule. It's about toime the auld place wuz convarted inter pigstoiys. It iz no place fur a schule roight formust the town and divil a bit av playground only the strate fur the childer. Last Saturday noight oi tuk Bridgit and the childer to hear the Band playin. Shure it wuz grand. There wuz me bhoy Patsy, it tuk me all mi toime to git him home. The Prizidint uv the Band must be vary fond of music, fur the Band always plays formust his bailiwick. Bridget ses it would be hoice fur the childer if they wud play in front uv our place. Pr'aps rthey wull sumtoimes when they want subscripshuns fur uniforms. Shure, we have a foin lot uv min on our Town Board. Sports an good wans too, every wan uv thim. Patsy wuz tillin me to-day about the foin ashfilt track they her made fur the sicklists to train on roight up Constitooshun Hill. Its plazed the bhocs wid bikes will be fur shure. The uther avening about tin o'clock oi wuz outside havin' a scmoke whin oi saw an unurthly loight up dlfceoad. Oi called to Bridget an whin she came oi sed look faith there's a new sort uv a star. No, ses she, its Ayster toime. Duns its the Pixies out for an airing. Me darter Kathleen jist thin came out and ses father that's the new electric ■Light that' the Town Boord has ™st put in. Then ses oi whoi in the name uv forchin didn't they put it harf way out to Parangia, where it won't desave people. Whoi, father, ses Passey, its a public convenience for prohibited drunks whin they are goin- home ton Saturday noight, so ez they ken foind the hid on the bottle to Jtraw the cork. When oi wint -■ insokle" oi wuz readin in yw

paper about £2OO that got lost somewhere, an oi wuz thinkin how good it wud be fur the sawmills becos the paple on the Taysdale Sittlement will hev to bhoy timber fur stilts to walk to an from there secshuns this winter. Enyhow, Mister Editer, let us all* be happy in our discontint, fur if we are continted with what we have Te Awamuty will niver be eny bigger then what its been continted to be fur the last 30 years. —I am, etc., - DINIS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir—l have just received a copy of the first issue of your paper for which I thank you. I also received a request to become a subscriber, I certainly had intended doing so but on looking over the contents I meet with sentiments which seemed to me quite uncalled for. These are contained in a letter under the nom-de-plume of "Dulcie" and which begins with congratulations on your advent (in which I beg to join), but the writer then goes on to express the opinion of our old settlers. Now, as I first saw Te Awamutu in 1867,1 suppose lam one of these, and hitherto I have been under the pleasant delusion that being one of the old pioneers of the district was rather a matter for self-gratification. It appears, however, that in this I was wrong, as the old fossils are merely a drag on the progress of the district initiated by the new blood." Far be it from me to disparage new blood, but it hurts me to hear my fellow settlers, who have borne the heat and burden of the day, and have gone through such times as I hope the new blood will never experience, spoken of as merely drags on the progress of the district. Among them were men who, time after time, had to leave their homes and gather their wives and families within the shelter of the neighbouring redoubtr while they themselves did ''sentry go" outside. Time after time alarms were raised, and though the natives never came in force, yet the danger was real enough. Several lives were actually taken by the Maoris, and it seems to me that settlers who were made of such stuff . deserve a better reward than to be held up to contempt, for one thing is certain, without these same ancient worthies the new blood would never have been here. —I am etc., ANCIENT WORTHY.