MODERN MIRACLES.
“ We are living in strange and excitnig times, when magic—so common is 1 1 amongst us—has ceased to count ; when on all hands marvels are everyday occurrences. Kitty years ago the roads we walked oil —walked, mind you ! —were disfigured by nothing taster Ilian a runaway horse, nor disturbed by sounds more strident than the jingling of harness and the hells o! bicycles. Horses and cyclists were then the fastest things on the road. Think of the difference to-day, when horses and cyclists are cursed not for
passing every thing e ! se. but for blocking the traffic with their sluggish pace. Cyclists-—for whom police traps used to he laid—are now being carried by those very police into every adjacent infirmary to be healed of the wounds inflicted by the motor juggernauts ot the road!” —Sir Hugh Allan, Director oif (lie Royal College of .Music.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1928, Page 2
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146MODERN MIRACLES. Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1928, Page 2
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