“NO-LIGHT BRIGADE”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19049, 28 June 1924, Page 4

“NO-LIGHT BRIGADE”

BATCH OF NEW MEMBERS. WINDFALL AT THE ROADSIDE. It is not true that business is dull in Wanganui. In one line it is very brisk, at least, it has been during the past week. Inspectors Fear and McGregor, of the Borough Council staff, have been rounding up erring cyclists of both sexes, with the result that 25 members of the “no light brigade” have received, or will receive, an invitation to attend a levee which is to be held by the Magistrate on July 7. The inspectors’ luck is still in, even if the luck of a lot of local citizens is dead out, for last evening the vigilant pair spread their net again and caught a further batch of twenty cyclists, who will likewise be recipients of a blue invitation card in due course.

But the strangest capture made by the inspectors last evening was the most interesting. On the side of the Heads Road they found a brief bag, the contents being a bottle of whisky, another of beer, a brown loaf of bread and a prayer book. The inspector’s duly apprehended it, and there appear grounds for a rumour that a departing cyclist jettisoned it in his haste. Owing to the fact that the inspectors are abstemious persons the bag and contents intact now repose at the chief inspector’s office, an offer by a scribe to mind them being declined with thanks.