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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 155, 29 December 1925, Page 2

In connection with the- recent collision of a privately owned bus with an iron standard in Constable street on Saturday evening, Mr. H. A. Capon, the driver of tho bus, states that he did not try to pass a traincar, and was at no time past it. He stopped his bus at Danicll street. From that point he started off in low gear, and when he struck the iron post he was on second jear. The speed of the bus at the time was 16 or 17 miles an hour, not at all excessive when running to time-table. The step was not torn off the bus, nor was the glass all along one side of the' bus broken, only one pane being damaged, when the bus canted over in crossing the gutter. The lower part of tho vehicle was undamaged. The bus was behind the trftmcar at the time.

"Are you the Governor?" asked » youngster of five years, as be walked up to Sir Charles Fergusson lit Grovmouth on Saturday evening. "Yes," admitted Sir Charles, smiling eueotu'iigin^ly. "Well." said tlic questioner, "my father works on the railway, and wo are going to pc 'transferred soon. Good-by, Governor! Merry Curis-.t--uvas l"