RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31383, 31 May 1967, Page 26

RANDOM REMINDER

SQUARE SEARCH

The owners of new can are, as a rule, inordinately proud of their possessions, and, like little boys with bicycles at Christmas, will flick off every speck of dust, for a few weeks at least So it was surprising to learn of a Canterbury countiy gentleman who took possession of a new car one Friday, and lost it on Sunday. It was not a matter of theft He simply left it late at night and could not remember where it was the next day. There were, of course, unusual circumstances surrounding the affair. The owner is a golfer, which makes him just a little peculiar, in some respects. Two days

after he first drove his new car, he took it to a very popular golf tournament in North Canterbury. There he had an exhausting day, playing two rounds in trying weather—its always too hot or too cold for golfers, unless they're playing well—and, being a friendly sort of chap, he stayed on after play had ended to chat to his friends. The outcome was that when he set off for home, he was extraordinarily tired, and after he had left and had been driving for a while, he had a mishap which did his new car no good at all. He was not, fortunately, injured, for he had not been too tired to forget

his aeat belt But he was found at the car by hia friends, taken back to the home of a mutual acquaintance near the golf course, and put to bed. Although he showed no superficial evidence of injury, he must have suffered a slight concussion, for next day he could not remember where he had left the «ar. His host, however, was a kindhearted fellow, and offered to assist in the search. And that was how the new owner became perhaps the first Canterbury golfer to find a lost car from un altitude of a thousand feet in a small privately-owned aircraft