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Waipukurau Press, Volume XIV, Issue 45, 19 April 1930, Page 8

‘Broadsiding, not on the cinder track but on the public highways, is a grave danger to motorists at present,” stated the President (Mr J. L. Passmore) at the meeting of the Otago Motor Club. In all parts of the town, he added, motorists suddenly came upon boys on bicycles practising broadsiding, and he had narrowly escaped running over a boy recently. He mentioned the matter as a warn- ' ing to motorists, and he thought that 1 it should be given publicity so that parents would be able to exercise some restraint over their boys and prevent them from being injured. Commenting at Auckland on the right of pedestrians to use the King’s highway, Mr Justice Smith stated in the Supreme Court that this privilege was undoubted. Pedestrians unquestionably had this right, which included that of crossing the street. “What would happen if everyone elected to walk on the roadway I do not know.” observed His Honour. “We would then be in desperate straits and legislation would have to be enacted to remedy the position, but as the law stands to-day, pedestrians are as much entitled to travel oh the roadway as the traffic.”