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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 84, 3 January 1929, Page 3

The Thames flows at the rate of two miles an hour. Plymouth, once a fishing village, has been given the rank of a city. Church bells are tuned by chipping the edge until the proper note is obtained. Left unattended at the foot of Sanders Avenue, Takapuna, about mid-day recently, a motor milk van was unable to resist the call of the glittering sands, and the feathery breakers, which hurled hundreds of surf bathers shorewards each time they crashed on to the beach (states the “Star”). For reasons known only to itself, the van moved off on its own, and soon gathered momentum. At the foot of Sanders Avenue is a stone wall, usually used as a back-rest for sun bathers. With nothing to stay its progress, the van leapt from the wall yards out on to the beach, toppling on one side when it landed. Fortunately, none of the bathers on ihe beach was in the path of the runaway, and no one was injured. The van itself was little damaged, and was driven away under its own power. ■S'