MOTOR CAR MISHAPS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 2919, 15 September 1908, Page 5

MOTOR CAR MISHAPS.

ADVENTURES OF TWO NO- , LICENSE ADVOCATES. The Rev. L. M. Isitt and Mr J. bridges met with several accidents of a more or less serious nature while motoring, yesterday, from Masterton oo their way to Alfredton, where Mr Isitt intended to deliver an address on ■"No-License." On the party arriving at Mauriceville a roadman volunteered the information that there was heavy metal on the main road, and advised the travellers to make a detour by way of Barton's Road. After expressing thanks for the timely warning, tlie chaffeur turned the car in the direction indicated, only to pull up at the end of a four-mile run in a mud-hoie that proved absolutely impassible. An attempt to back out resulted in the car sliding over the bank. While one of the occupants went back two miles for assistance and a horse, the oth«r passengers covered themselves with "mud and glory" in an attempt to get the car back on to the road again. The task was accomplished after two hours' work. There was still time to reach Alfredton by eight o'clock, but so .vigorous a pace did the chaffeur set that live miles further on the engines heated, and there was every prospect of a twelve-miles walk into Eketahuna. The situation, however, was again saved, and ;the engines once more started. Another seven miles were swiftly negotiated, and then bang went a front tyre. An extra tyre was put on, but the travellers then consulted their watches and found that they could notor each Alfredton in time for the meeting. The inevitable was accepted, and a mournful retreat was beaten. When within a mile of Eketahuna one cylinder again went wrong and the car had to be pushed up the hill by the exhausted occupants. The travellers left the car at Eketahuna and returned to Masterton by the late train last night.