GIFT OF BENZINE
COURTEOUS AMERICAN OFFICER HELP FOR MOTORIST A demonstration of road courtesy involving an unusually high degree of generosity, was made on the Main South Road, near Inglewood. A motorist whose petrol tank was. empty found that he required a spanner to move back the luggage carrier so that he could empty the contents of a container into the petrol tank. But the spanner was missing from the tool-box. An American officer who happened to be passing stopped his car and on ascertaining the position immediately proferred three gallons of his own petrol. He emptied his. con-, tainer into the Taranaki motorist's tank and firmly declined to accept any payment for the gift. Wiifch the observation that he was glad to be able to repay kindnesses he had received in New Zealand, he drove off.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 54, 7 March 1944, Page 3
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137GIFT OF BENZINE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 54, 7 March 1944, Page 3
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