SPARKS.

Marlborough Express, Volume LX, Issue 229, 28 September 1926, Page 6

SPARKS.

V careless driver may keep out of accideiits a long timo due to other vehicle-users l>eing cautious. ^ ^ * Automobile ©namels liave been. so improved in reOent years it is said a wai [' scratching at a limdusipe door 110 loiiger mars the finish. jfc $ Hs * sk How does a weak tyre know you are, all dressed up and ready, for a party ? * * * * * Motorist : I simply wasli my hands of the whole affair. P.O. : I'm afraid you can't do that, sir. Motorist: Oh, oant' I? It-'s not my car. I haven't got a driving lioen.se> and I've never driven before. As a means of reinforcement to prevent the river Missouri washing away its banks at Pierre, South Dakota, old worn-out Cars are being submerged along the water' s edge over a frontage of about a mile. Anybody wliose car "goes over" at the Kaituna end of the Wairau Bridge is requested to leave it there as the nucleus of a new groyne. • # * * * A motorist thinks nothing of stopping for a few seconds to light his pipe, but when it oomes to waiting a moment to look hoth ways to see ii' a train is approaehing, many drivers feel that it is a waste of time. Jt is no waste of timo if. it means the saving of lives. • * • * • Tlie other afternoon, during a shower, I observed a car with its hood down passing along the road. The passengers in the back seat had umbrellas up to keep off the rain. Tt certainly looked like old times ! If all the local bodies in the South Island were as active in the matter of "lifting" Main Highways money s as the Marlborough Countv Cbuncil, there would not be the complaint that there is about neglected roads. Last year the Oouncil spent over £7000 of Highways hinds, and it has had about the same amount allocated to it this year — whicli it also intends to apply to its proper purpose !