MOTOR CAR ACCIDENTS.

Shannon News, 30 October 1928, Page 3

MOTOR CAR ACCIDENTS.

A motor car collision occurred on Saturday afternoon on the Buckley road at the corner of the road between Messrs Stern Bros and Saxon's'farms. The parties were Mr C. Cronquest, of Shannon, in a three seater, and Mr T. H. Powell, of Lower Hutt, in a sedan car. Mr Cronquest was driving slowly down, the hill on the proper, side o'f the road, Mr Powell was coming up the hill. The former's car had the running mud guard and back axle torn off and the sedan a ; new ear had the front axle, dumb irons .and mudguards badly damaged. Mr. Powell's car landed in the water race on the right of the road. Had the collision occurred a little further on Mr Cronquest's ear would have, In all probability, gone over the hillside. Another mishap happened on Sunday afternoon on the Ihakara Hill in the cutting near Mr Laws. A new Dodge sedan driven by a Pahiatua resident, who was accompanied by hi. 3 wife and daughter, when travelling at about fifteen miles per hour skiddeJ in some metal and landed side up in the middle of the road. Fortunately the occupants all escaped injury. The car was quickly righted and on an inspection being made it was found to be undamaged, not even the windscreen -being broken or the body scratched in any way. The travellers being able to to continue their .journey.

Reference to the "death-ray," of which nothing has been heard lately, but which is doubtless the subject of secret experiments, was made by the Rev. H. Spencer in his lecture to the Levin Lunch Club on Friday. He said that what people had been, led to expect had not been accomplished, but the fact remained that the "deathray" was going to be the great war machine of the future, and he thought that it would either bring war to an end or result in the annihilation of nations. It would emit-a radio >ave of tremendous power and extremely high frequency, and scorch everything that it passed across, so that life would not be able to exist in its. presence. "Undoubtedly it is coming," he added. "When our scientists are able more effectively to concentrate the radio waves of this frequency, something is going to happen."

When the last mail left the Old Country, Mr and Mrs T. F. Gibson were in Scotland. Writing to the secretary of the. Levin Horticultural Society from Edinburgh on September 13th, Mrs Gibson gives a very interesting account of the Eoyal Caledonian Horticultural 'Society's autumn show, which she had just visited in the Wavcrley Market. The exhibits totalled 1850 and constituted a dazzling display of flowers, fruit and vegetables. The .displays made by world-famous firm* were wonderful. Dickson's roses, Dobbie's, dahlias and Sutton's vegetables were almost beyond description. One novelty was an exhibit of potgrown fruit trees in full bearing. A rock garden in miniature with shrubberies, crazy pavement and borders, included a pretty new blue erica, was built on trestles, as an exhibit. The decorative work was wonderful and the principal 'open decorated dinner table was won by a man, a gardener. Mrs Gibson concludes with her good wishes for the success of the forthcoming summer show in Levin.