HIKUTAIA NEWS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4644, 4 January 1924, Page 4

HIKUTAIA NEWS.

HOLIDAYS. Christmas week passed very quietly, there being little, if anything, to distinguish the holiday from the ordinary season. The cows had to be milked and the hay harvest reaped, any spare time being spent at the Alley Memorial Park, where bowls, tennis, and croquet proved highly popular. Several tennis “ladder" matches were played, the successful players being Mrs L. Alexander, Messrs H. Smith and Roy Samson. Most of the games were both close an! exciting. ACCIDENT. While driving through the gate leading to his home, Bertie, the seconl son of Alex Duncan, was thrown from the milkcart and the horse, startled by the impact of the cart against the gatepost, bolted, one wheel passing over the lad’s heel. Fearing a fracture, Mr Duncan had the ’boy taken to the Thames Hospital where an X-ray photograpn showed that no bones had been broken, and the lad will be home again in a day or two. A RUNAWAY. As an unknown party was driving along the Hikutaia-Paeroa road on Boxing Day the shaft pf the sulky broke and the horse, playing up> overturned the vehicle, broke the harness, and bolted down the road to the hotel corner, where a hor.se and cart were standing. Breaking a,way. the latter horse dashed down the station road and came into collision with the verandah post of Messrs Maxwell and_ Brash’s store. The cart was overturned, the weight of the vehicle bringing the stampede to a sudden end. No one was hurt, although the cart was so ‘ badly smashed that it had to be left in a paddock adjoining the scene of the play-up. PROPERTY SALES. Mr J. Murdock has bought the propel ty recently owned by Mr Con. Walker, while Messrs Devcich and Bailey have each purchased a portion of the land on the Thames side of the township belonging to Mr Bert Alley, junr.