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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXVII, Issue 9206, 7 April 1938, Page 3

“You may be surprised to learn that the number of bicycles in Christchurch is more apparent than real,” said a witness during the hearing of the Second Court of Arbitration in Wellington. “Both Wellington and Auckland import more bicycles than Christchurch, and there are two bicycles sold in the North Island to every one in the South Island, in proportion to population.” The theory was advanced by another speaker that Christchurch’s reputation as a city on wheels was due to the fact that that city’s quota of bicycles was in constant and apparent use.