SNOWBALLING MOTORISTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 31, 5 August 1936, Page 10

SNOWBALLING MOTORISTS

(To the Editor.)

Sir> —On Sunday I unfortunately had occasion to w cross the Rimutakas to visit a sick relative in Masterton! Many other folk were gathered near the Summit waiting for passing motorists. When we came along the car was unmercifully bombarded with mow from either or both sides of the road. Unfortunately my car is an open tourer, and some persons about a couple <3f hundred yards from the top threw such huge and hard snowballs that they smashed my windscreen and covered my wife and me with so much snow that I could not for the moment see where I was going as the snow was covering my glasses. I did not know until I was over the Summit that my shield was broken, and it fell out of its frame a little further on. When I reported this to a patrol officer at .the Summit he was much concerned.

On our return I- spoke to a traffic officer on the Summit, and he said another man had had his shield broken and his face cut about. Nevertheless, we were again subjected to a fusillade of snowballs, and when I remonstrated with one that threw about six or eight pounds of snow straight into our laps he said everyone that went up there was there for a bit of fun. I have no objection to folks snowballing one another, but when they throw1 hard snowballs at cars and do damage it is going beyond a joke, and I feel that some officer .should have the power to stop people-pelting passing cars.—l am, etc.,

DISGUSTED.