BOLTED WITH GIG

Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1931, Page 6

BOLTED WITH GIG

WILD CAREER OF HORSE. PALMERSTON NORTH, Sept. 11. A small girl, aged about three years, had a remarkable escape from death or serious injury this afternoon wh-ii a horse attached to a gig she was in bolted around the Square. She only received bruises and cuts, however, and was able to be taken home -after medical assistance had been given to her. The horse and gig was near the city council buildings in the Square, and while the owner was absent for a few m mites the horse for no apparent reason suddenly bolted. Horse and gig careered, through the Square with the child holding on tightly to the sides of the vehicle. It went up the south side of Main Street toward Terrace End, and when the Princess Street crossing was , reached the horse .swung across the line on to the north side of Main Street, the child stjll maintaining its seat. The horse zig-zagg-ed up the street as passers-by repeatedly made futile attempts to arrest its progress. At Victoria Avenue crossing the horse swung at right angles on to the railway track, capsizing the gig and throwing the child on to. the ballast be.tween the railway lines.

With the splintered -gig still attached the horse stopped near the defence oftices on the south side of Main Street,