"NEEDED NECK LIKE SWAN”

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 224, 10 December 1927, Page 15

"NEEDED NECK LIKE SWAN”

CROSSING COLLISION VAN-DRIVER FINED “One would need to have a neck like a swan's to see the train coming.” This was the remark of a defendant, when charged with failing to stop at a railway crossing and with passing over a line when .it was not clear. W. V. Price, the defendant, had been driving a milk van over the railway crossing at Penrose when his van was hit by a train. He had a good view of the line, according to the prosecution, and he should be fined heavily. Price said it was the worst crossing he knew in New Zealand. “And 1 had to pay heavily for repairs to my truck,” he said.

“You’re lucky it didn’t cost yoy much more," remarked Mr. W. R. McKean. S.M., fining him £1 on each of two charges.

Buz, 4 Van Rich, Three lengths; length. Times, 4.3 S 4-5, 4.34 4-5, 4.38. Winner trained by owner. Gold Dial’s Fine Effort

The Cup contest saw Gold Dial at her best, for at the start she broke and lost a lot of ground, but she still won. Bingen King led up the straight from Buz Buz, The Tartar, Van Rich, Nelson Tasker and Gold Dial, the lastnamed going strongly in making up her leeway. The favourite continued her effort, which carried her into second place along the back, and she was up with Bingen King passing the stands the second time, following, the pair being elear of Van Rich, Nelson Tasker and Reliance. Just before this The

NELSON TASKER, beaten by the favourite, Gold Dial, in the Northland Cup. Tartar broke up badly, and Amaris was not doing it correctly. Gold Dial was joined along the back by Nelson Tasker, Bingen King having compounded, and this pair turned for home ten lengths ahead of Reliance, who was almost that distance in front of Van Rich. Then Gold Dial went away to win comfortably bv three lengths, Nelson Tasker gaining second money by a length from Reliance, who finished strongly. The Tartar was fourth, and Bingen King, Van Rich and Amaris next, with Buz Buz bringing up the COUNTIES HANDICAP Of £100; l?j miles; 3.50 limit. S—WEE THELMA (C. Bishell), b m, by Harold Dillon—Rothschild mare, syrs. limit, owner 1 2—MOKO FLY, limit, C. Schon .... 2 I—LEXOR.MA, limit, S. J. Roe .... 3 Also started.—l Nelli.* Bramley (braceted with Lenorma), 6 Ida Anna, 3 Irish Bell, 4 Peter Jackson. Long neck: six lengths. Times: 3.46, 3.46 1-5, 3.53. (Winner trained by owner.)