PUNCTURES GALORE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 284, 21 February 1928, Page 7

PUNCTURES GALORE

MOTORIST’S BAD JOURNEY FATE’S MANY BLOWS To travel the highways and the byways of the Auckland Province for 18 months and no: experience a single puncture, was hardly suiticient compensation (thinks an Auckland motorist) for the blows fate dealt him yesterday. On his return trip from New Plymouth, says the Aucklander, he hod “the time of his life.” In the Awakino district he found his switch had fused end set tnings alight i In the hurry to turn the car into the ! bank the front tyre “ballooned.” After much ingenuity the car was got going, out coming Into Hamilton there was a big bang, and cne of the after lugs iof the engine-frame cracked. An auxiliary hanger, however, was purchased and fitted. Nearing Ohinewai a truck was found disabled and a lift: given to the driver, who wanted to get to Pokeno. The latter wearily confessed to having had ten punctures. The words had hardly been broad * cast when the front tyre was down again. From. Rangiriri to within a mile of Mercer no fewer than 14 punctures were accumulated. Patches had 1 run out, and patience nad evaporated ! hours previously. The car had to go | on a flat tyre until Merc*r and a new tyro was found. j Near Wiri a motor smash was encountered. There was hardly room for j either to get through, but a steady ; wheel saved the situation. j The Rtraker-Scuire factory at Kdi monton is to become a clotliin#faciory.