PUNTERS’ ENTHUSIASM.

Shannon News, 9 February 1926, Page 3

PUNTERS’ ENTHUSIASM.

BY CAR TO THE RACES. A long and tiresome journey was made by four enthusiastic followers of the sport of kings who attended the Foxton races (states the Wanganui Chronicle). They brought into commission a car which for the past four years has been furnishing fowls with, a roosting place. Dilapidated though the machine was, it got the venturesome quartette to their destination, after a good deal of persuasion, in time for the first race, and the contraption formed a Striking contrast to the latest modelled limousines and sedans when it was lined up on the course parking stand. The homeward journey proved more eventful, and took over nine hours to accomplish. A few punctures on the way, the blowing off of the exhaust pipe, and all the other imaginable troubles encountered by motorists tended to delay the punters on the road, but they persevered and coaxed their machine onwards, ; eventually crawling across the Town Bridge as the clock boomed out the hour of three o’clock. The quartette were cheerful despite their misadventure and 'experiences with their “glow worm,” as they termed their “car,” because of its tendency to get heated up, thus forming a “beacon lights for other users of the road. . ,