MOTOR GAR MISHAPS.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 65, 15 September 1908, Page 8

MOTOR GAR MISHAPS.

ADVENTURES OF TWO NO-

LICENSE ADVOCATES

\ The Rev. v. M. Isitt and Mr J. Bridges met with several accidents of a more or less serious nature (says the Age), while motoring yesterday from Masterton on their way to Alfredton, where Mr Isitt intended, to deliver an address on No-license.

On the party arriviHg at Mauricevillo a roadman vohmteered the information that there was heavy metal on the main road, and advised tlio traTellers to make a detour by way of Barton's Koad. After expressing thanks for the timely warning, the ch.a'ffeur turned the car in the direction indicated, only to pull up at the end of a four-milo run in a mud-hole that proved absolutely impassable. An attempt to back otit resulted in the car sliding over the bank. While one of the -occupants went back two miles for assistance and a horse, the other 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 8 o'clock, but so vigorous a pace did the cbaffeur set that five miles further on the engines hoated, and there was every prospect of a 12-mile walk into Eketahiina. 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 it An extra tyre was put on, but the travellers then consulted their watches, and found that they could not reach 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.