MOTOR CAR ACCIDENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1627, 21 October 1916, Page 2

MOTOR CAR ACCIDENT.

i’TVE PERSONS INJURED. Woodville, Yesterday. Early this morning a car owned and driven by Mr Kemp, of Kumeroa, while returning from the Hastings SJunv with Messrs Boyd, Johansen, and Kicoll (Pahiatua), and G. Peddles (Woodville) was overturned in M'Leau street. The occupants were thrown out and injured. Four were taken to Pahiatua Hospital. After treatment two were able to leave. Messrs Kemp and KicolPs injuries were more serious; tlie former was unconscious. Mr Johansen had a broken arm and a number of cuts. Mr Boyd was bruised and cut about. The car was badly damaged.

Yesterday, at 7.30 a.m. (says the Palmerston Times),a. gang of four men started on a portion of Church Street to re-tar and sand it by hand. At four o’clock they had finished approximately about 2,000 square yards, which in the circumstances must be considered good going.

Cvery man horn in New Zealand, no matter of what parentage, is a natural-born British subject, and is liable under the Military Service Act to be conscripted the same as a man born of British parents. In the case of men of enemy parentage there is special provision in the Act to enable the Commandant to discharge anv such Reservist from the Forces.

There is a yarn of an English airman captured hy the Germans who was asked by his captors to take a. German observer over one of our seas in his machine. At first he refused —but afterwards —strapping himself in position, he consented. The German was armed hut bulky; ins straps were not to he depended on. Somewhere over the North Sea in the dusk of that sunset, a trawler saw a remarkable sight. An English aviator was looping the loop, for sheer joy apparently, somersault niter somersault like a tumbler pigeon. He kept it up for half an hour. Then a dark form dropped from the machine into the North Sea. Perhaps it was a German with a revolver in each hand. Al any rate, an English aviator arrived on the east coast an hour or two later, and lie complained of feeling lonely.