LURE OF SHELLFISH.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 31, 7 February 1928, Page 10

LURE OF SHELLFISH.

; TOHEROA HUNTERS AT MURIWAI. i | SPEEDING CARS UNHEEDED. DANGER OF ACCIDENTS. | , _ " j Hey! Look out! Run for your life!"' Officials at Muriwai in a state of tense agitation rushed on the s r .,-d-trial course yesterday in front of a car travelling at over a hundred miles an hour, and rescued a tohcroa hunter from imminent peril. Throughout the afternoon there was constant danger and the need for vigiljance on the part of members of the Auckland Automobile Asociation's exjocutive to prevent accidents. Trouble jof the kind had not occurred on Saturday, as all the people were kept off the j beach, but yesterday a portion of the jsand was left open to visitors and some, ■in their eagerness to get toheroas, trespassed on the mile course marked out ! for the speed trials. The Xow Zealand • Cup winner. R. B. Wilson, in the Stutz, , was on the course and travelling at full speed when a picnicker was pulled off the toheroa beds within half a mile of the car and right in the line of its flight. It was the intention of the Automobile Association to hold the Sunday speed trials on a five-mile course, but this idea had to be abandoned when it was found that the beach had been dug so badly by people getting toheroas in the middle of the course that it was impossible to race over it. On several ! occasions the picnickers were asked to withdraw from the track and fill up the! holes, but they came back again after! .the officials had gone further on and began digging as vigorously as before. 1 j Conditions of the kind existed for seven I : miles along the beach. The officials! jinade an attempt to locate a five-mile j (straight course in the vicinity of the I bays to the northward but failed. Vo ! j suitable course was available for a dis-1 I tance of twenty miles, a course ofi jone mile had therefore to be used. | It was measured out by the speedometer of the Automobile Association's j service car and checked with survev [observations.but again there was trouble' because of holes dug in the toheroal Most of the people left whenj spoken to and did their best to put the 1 track in order for racing, though some! were persistent and returned on several'