MOTOR SPARKS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 326, 13 September 1932, Page 2

MOTOR SPARKS

T A cashier absconded in his car with J £10,000. "Running expenses," in fact. Jimmy says he could fill a hook with 1 reminiscences of his second-hand car. Autobiography ! Evening Paper. — "The car flashed • up the one-in-four gradient at 300 miles an hour " A little of the "whizz" in the Wizard! When the rent collector returned to his car, he found that someone had slashed open a haclc tyre. Behind with the rent! Provincial Paper. — "The dar was equipped with four speeds, including silent traffic cop . . . ." It won'«t be long before that car is run in. In his scriptural lesson, Willie said that Lot's wife looked round and reversed into a pillar-hox. * * * * He also said that daddy's car had heen giving trouble with a short circuit in its Feudal System. * * * * "Ai," said Angus, "yer on th' richt road for Glasgae, but yer car's turnt the wrang wa'." * * * Jimmy has given up golf, but he still uses the language when he changes over a spare wheel. Billy's old car is a three season's car — one with no spring in it. * * * * Because her hushand began to abuse the P.C., who had held their car up at the four-cross, the young wife smiled sweetly and, anxious to pour oil on troubled waters, remarked "Don't take any notice of him, officer, he's intoxicated!" * * * * There were four police cops with stop-watches within that hundred yards, operating a timed "trap." Another instance where every copper counts. :!: * The P.C. said he could not swear the motorist was drunk, but he had picked up a manhole cover from the road to take home to try on his gramophone. •I* *1* ¥ "Yes," agreed the witness, "I admit calling him a fool and a liar, but I did not call him a cad and a rogue — a man can't rememh'er everything during a crash!" it # ❖ ❖ When the magistrate asked in what gear the accused was driving, th'e witness replied that as far as he could remember, the driver had on a trilby hat and blue and white scarf.