NOVEL SLEEPING PLACE

Hokitika Guardian, 10 January 1929, Page 6

NOVEL SLEEPING PLACE

RUNNING BOARD OE CAR, DUNEDIN, January S. Whenever a motorist is involved in an accident he generally has to shoulder the blame until (if he is really innocent) half-a-dozen witnesses and a defending counsel help him out. The curious experience which was the lotof a Dunedin business man this, afternoon serves to show that the motorist is continually up against the unexpected. As a matter of fact, there was no accident in this case, hut if a- corner had been turned by the man at the wheel a more alarming paragraph would possibly have been written. I lie motorist left bis car standing in. King street for a while, and on returning to it stepped into the driver’s seat m the usual manner. After driving some distance he behld a woman gesticulating wildly on the road in front of him. Wondering what was. wrong no pulled up. Then lie discovered that a little girl, aged between two and three years, bad curled herself up and gone to sleep on the running board opposite to that which lie had used to step into the car. The motorist realises that had lie started suddenly br ; turned a corner the child would probably have been thrown off.