DON QUIXOTE IN A BORROWED CAR

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 38, 8 November 1937, Page 9

DON QUIXOTE IN A BORROWED CAR

Our Own Correspondent.)

Tilts at Pillar-Boxes and Then at a House TRAIL OF DAMAGE

IFrom

WOODVILLE, This Day. The usual Sunday rural peace of the district of Kumeroa, a few miles from Woodville, was rudely disturbed yesterday afternoon by the wild career of a resident in two carsf neither of which was his property. He began by tilting, like a modern Don Quixote, at the mail-boxes supported on substantial posts along tlie road, with such force that the car was aoon irreparably damaged and the mailboxes scattered in all directions. Not satigiied with that, he then literaily ' * eleaned-up ' ' some f our chains of fenciug in the same manner. Arrived at a residence, he turnfed his attentionjs to a second motor, which he drove into the end of a car shed, shiftiflg the building about four feet, and then into the side of a cottage, the impact dislodgiug the crockery, which tumbled in a heap of broken chxna on tu the iloor, and- doxng other damage. This motor suffered a iate similar to that of the Iirst. The unusual proceedin'gs soon attracted the atteution of a big crowd from the neighbourhood, and rne policu from Woodville and Pahiatua were summoned to escort the driver to the Palmerston North police statipn for oL>servation.