CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 September 1921, Page 6

CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS.

LADY VISITOR’S EXPERIENCES. A lady visitor from New Plymouth has had at least an exciting if not an interesting time during her short stay in Auckland. She appears to have done nothing but figure in a chapter of accidents. From the time she put foot into Queen Street ‘‘every move” landed her in trouble. It came first as the result of a visit to a fancy goods shop. Here she picked up two razor strops on her bangle, and was calmly walking out of the building when she noticed them dangling at her side. Fortunately, she returned them quickly with an apology, otherwise pertinent questions there might have been asked. From this on incidents followed in quick succession. When alighting from a car at Newmarket, while people were rushing the vehicle. she received a nasty fall. The visitor was also in the car that was pierced by the shaft of a vehicle (the outfit belonging to a Hindu hawker), near the Town Hall, and was badly bruised. Later, when visiting Kawau with her brother, she was stepping on to the wharf from a launch and caught hold of a loose rope-end, with the result that she was immediately precipitated into the sea, and with a strong current running was nearly carried under the wharf. Her last experience was when staying with friends in Hamilton Road. The house was burglariously entered, and among other things, the visitor Jost several heirlooms.